num_pages: 490
description: 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 differentand rigidly enforcedlevel 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 Levelsand 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 realityand reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability . . .Terminal World is a snarling drooling crazy-eyed mongrel of a book: equal parts steampunk western planetary romance and far-future SF.
language: English
title: Terminal World
publisher: Gollancz