Terminal World (First Print/First Edition)

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. …