Elysium Fire
- 497
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Elysium Fire” returns to the “Revelation Space” universe with dark, tense hard science fiction. It follows straight on from “Aurora Rising” as the second Prefect Dreyfus novel, yet it is built to stand alone, and a reader who met the first book long ago, or never, can follow it. Some see in it Reynolds’s most political novel so far, with the Brexit years plainly on its mind.
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About the book
Elysium Fire is a 2018 hard science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It is a direct sequel to Aurora Rising, taking place in the Revelation Space universe. Reynolds has stated that the novel requires no previous knowledge of Aurora Rising, functioning as a standalone work.
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8.08.0 / 10 - Machine Vendetta
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 116 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 116 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Elysium Fire?
It has 497 pages — longer than 65% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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