Terminal World
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds, published by Orbit on December 21, 2021, is a science fiction narrative that unfolds in the last surviving human city, Spearpoint. This 496-page edition presents an innovative and original dystopian space adventure, where an ex-spy named Quillon becomes embroiled in a dangerous quest after discovering a winged posthuman in his morgue. The story explores the complexities of life within Spearpoint, an enormous spire with semi-autonomous city-states that enforce varying levels of technology.
Readers will find themselves drawn into Quillon’s journey as he is forced to leave the confines of his home and venture into the hostile lands beyond. The narrative delves into themes of survival and the instability of reality itself, as Quillon’s mission becomes intertwined with the fate of the zones and their technological limitations. This edition, written in English, invites exploration of action, adventure, and the apocalyptic elements that define this gripping tale.
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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 . . .
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