Elysium Fire

Alastair Reynolds
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Elysium Fire

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1/29/2019
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This novel features intensely-interesting worldbuilding coupled with an intriguing murder mystery. I really, really, enjoyed it - enough to put it on my Hugo Best Novel longlist.

This is actually (loosely) part of his Revelation Space universe and a sequel to The Prefect, which I didn't realize when I picked it up. I did Google a couple of in-universe terms at the Revelation Space Wiki to better understand the worldbuilding behind them, but honestly, I thought the book stood well on its own (although I intend to go back and read The Prefect at some point).