Machine Vendetta: 3 (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies)

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And when an old enemy approaches Tom with news that something is going on, something that is powerful Dreyfus begins to investigate, and things start to go very wrong.

I dare say you could read it as a stand alone it is so easily managed but the full experience is all three (Aurora Rising, Elysium Fire). After several books which suggested a decline in Reynolds' power, he comes back with perhaps his most imaginative books. Dreyfus works the scenes like a seasoned police officer and we do our best to keep up and play along!The plot and the action are so dense and convoluted that I'm not sure whether some of the plot lines were resolved. The relentless narrative momentum it employs simply underscores the pertinent urgency of that topic. Yet Reynolds makes every action Dreyfus and the others take flow from the people they are so that we get a rich sense of what they’re like.

Tom Dreyfus is tired of being a cop, wants to be with his wife, who is not well, and is tired of watching his comrades die, and also that the Panoply he loves so much, is not the organization he thought it was.Alastair Reynolds is one of my very favourite authors, every book is a much-anticipated event, and with Poseidon's Wake he shows yet again why that is. It's something he's been knocked for, especially in his early novels, but he's clearly grown to become an author fully capable of creating authentic characters with genuine emotional resonance. For those who have followed this series it is not a spoiler to say that rogue AI machines are the bete noire of the series.