In the last surviving human city, an ex-spy gets sucked into a dangerous quest that will take him beyond the city walls when a winged man turns up dead in his morgue in this innovative and original dystopian space adventure. Spearpoint, the last human city, is an enormous atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different–and rigidly enforced–level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon’s world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint’s Celestial Levels–and with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint’s base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon’s own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police, but by the very nature of reality–and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability . . .
Terminal World
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SKU
EBP-1858193
Categories Action & Adventure, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Thrillers
Tag Alastair Reynolds
About Author | I'm Al, now a Goodreads author. I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF maga |
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Author | Alastair Reynolds |
ISBN | 9780316362290 |
Pages | 498 |
Publication Date | 12-20-2021 |
Publisher | Orbit |
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