Terminal World (First Print/First Edition)

Reynolds, Alastair

ISBN 10: 0575077182 / ISBN 13: 9780575077188

Published by Gollancz, London, 2010

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Very Good condition used 2010 First Print Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket.

Published by Gollancz, London.
Publication Print Number: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
Author: Alastair Reynolds.
ISBN: 9780575077188.
Approx. dims: 240mm h x 165mm w x 42mm d.

Intact clean condition unclipped pictorial dust jacket with 1cm pealing to
pictorial laminate top right corner front cover, plus slight rubbing and
creasing to edges and corners, slight signs of handling.
Intact DJ spine slightly creased to top and bottom.
Dust Jacket over very good condition black cloth boards with silver title
lettering to spine.
487 clean, slightly off white inside pages of English text, no inscriptions.
Page ends slightly tanned. Image shown is actual book for sale.

Synopsis: 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.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1781786619895

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Terminal World (First Print/First Edition)
• Publisher: Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575077182
• ISBN 13: 9780575077188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 16.1W x 24H x 3.8D centimeters 16.1 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 3.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 772 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions

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Synopsis

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 ...

About the Author

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He 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 Wales.