num_pages: 410
description: Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case—until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...
language: English
title: The Prefect
titlecomplete: The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
characters: Gaffney, Clepsydra, Thalia Ng, Sparver, Jane Aumonier, Tom Dreyfuss
genres: Audiobook, Hard Science Fiction, Detective, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 18890
series: Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, Revelation Space
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category:  Best Novel
publisher: Easton Press