Book description
TERMINAL WORLD is a snarling, drooling, crazy-eyed mongrel of a book:
equal parts steampunk, western, planetary romance and far-future SF.
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 . . .
