Terminal World Terminal World

Terminal World

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Publisher Description

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…

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2010
June 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

tc_sting ,

Solid book

Not sure why the bad reviews for this one.

Yes the main character is nauseatingly good and a bit one dimensional but the story is intriguing and general state of affairs is believable.

Will not offer spoilers here but it may help for other readers to look openly for character dialogue to reveal where the story actually takes place, when, and why. It’s all there, just not in a single back and forth between protagonist and antagonist.

I also found this book fairly relevant to present day 2021.

It is not far fetched anymore to imagine a highly technologically advanced society going to biblical ruin and de evolving to biblical attitudes and actions given life in the 21st century. Lots of knowledge and basic living necessities are executed via electronics so if anything warped those, we could be in a similar state.

Ltcrowe ,

I need the rest of the story

Great book I’ve read it twice.

Tansterman ,

Too many unanswered questions

While decently paced, it poses too many questions that remained unanswered by the end of the novel:
* What is Spearpoint and Spearpoint2?
* Why was there only two of them or so the Swarm, who have circumnavigated the planet, claim?
* What planet are they really on?
* What was unleashed that resulted in the zones?
* If it's really Mars (from the descriptions) instead of Earth, then why can Mars be viewed from the planet? Why not Earth?
* If it's a massive artificial construct like the Godas in "The Goda War" that developed its own atmosphere that is slowly dissipating, who gave it an atmosphere to begin with? And why? Again why can't Earth be viewed?
I hope the author will answer these unanswered questions in a sequel.

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