Alastair Reynolds discusses the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency trilogy | Author Interview

With the January 2024 release of Machine Vendetta now concluding the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency trilogy, I chat with science fiction author Alastair Reynolds about the Prefect books and his writing career.

0:00 Intro
1:34 Background in science and science fiction
7:55 First published story
9:56 Interzone and the 1990s
11:37 Astronomy career
13:27 Revelation Space and Chasm City
20:00 Conception of The Prefect
23:51 Panoply, Demarchy and real-time democracy
31:27 Elysium Fire
37:20 Machine Vendetta publication delay
38:28 Aurora Rising name change
41:03 Machine Vendetta concept
44:34 Potential for more Prefect stories
45:30 Wrapping up the Prefect trilogy
48:01 Writing shorter, tighter novels
49:48 Revisiting Revelation Space
52:38 Current projects

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