TERMINAL WORLD
February 3rd 2010 11:36
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alastair reynolds
alastair reynolds
TERMINAL WORLD
5 March 2010, Gollancz, $32.99, original paperback
Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. 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. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains...
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...
Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a PhD in astronomy. He lived in the Netherlands whilst working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, but is now a full-time writer living in South Wales. He has been steadily building a reputation as one of the most skilful practitioners of the flamboyant science fiction sub-genre of space opera. His second novel, Chasm City, won the British Science Fiction Association Award in 2001, and his latest, House of Suns, was shortlisted for this year's Arthur C. Clarke prize.
Alastair Reynolds has landed an unprecedented 10-year, 10-book, (UK Pounds)1M book deal from Gollancz.
TERMINAL WORLD
5 March 2010, Gollancz, $32.99, original paperback
Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. 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. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains...
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...
Alastair Reynolds studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a PhD in astronomy. He lived in the Netherlands whilst working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency, but is now a full-time writer living in South Wales. He has been steadily building a reputation as one of the most skilful practitioners of the flamboyant science fiction sub-genre of space opera. His second novel, Chasm City, won the British Science Fiction Association Award in 2001, and his latest, House of Suns, was shortlisted for this year's Arthur C. Clarke prize.
Alastair Reynolds has landed an unprecedented 10-year, 10-book, (UK Pounds)1M book deal from Gollancz.
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