Machine Vendetta
- 444
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Machine Vendetta” closes Alastair Reynolds’s Prefect Dreyfus trilogy with a solid murder case among the habitats of the Glitter Band. Following straight on from “Elysium Fire”, it is, by the author’s own account, his last Revelation Space book for now. Several readers find it less sharp and less surprising than the earlier volumes, though some of them still relish the flashes of Reynolds’s prose. It only makes full sense after the first two books.
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About the book
Machine Vendetta is a 2024 hard science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. It is a direct sequel to Elysium Fire and the final part in The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies trilogy. Reynolds has stated on his blog that this is the final book set in the Revelation Space universe for the foreseeable future.
Reading order · A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency
Full order & progress →- The PrefectStart here
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8.08.0 / 10 - Machine VendettaThis book
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.6 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% 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 | 8.6 | 53 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Machine Vendetta?
It has 444 pages — shorter than 51% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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