Terminal World

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4.2
39 reviews
Ebook
560
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About this ebook

Alastair Reynolds revolutionized the science fiction genre with his critically-acclaimed Revelation Space novels. Now, the award-winning author presents a future of technological wonders—from every era…

In a far-distant future, Spearpoint, the last human city, is a vast, atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones: semiautonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different—and rigidly enforced—level of technology.
 
Following a botched infiltration mission, enforcement agent Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in a morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissection table, his world is wrenched apart.
 
For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint’s Celestial Levels. And with the dying body comes bad news: Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint’s base. But he can neither imagine how far the journey will take him—nor comprehend how much is at stake…

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4.2
39 reviews
Drew Dehel
October 22, 2023
Interesting, full of possibility, but IMO incomplete. I feel like there needs to be another book to really finish the story. It feels like the start of a series.
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Sean Armstrong
October 20, 2014
I really liked this world. I would like to read more from this Universe.
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Frank Federico
March 12, 2020
Amazing world for any sci-fi fan. You won't be disappointed.
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About the author

Alastair Reynolds is the author of the Poseidon’s Children series and the Revelation Space series. Born in Barry, South Wales, he studied at Newcastle University and the University of St. Andrews. A former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, he now writes full-time.

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