Terminal World

Informationen zum Autor Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. REVELATION SPACE and PUSHING ICE were shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD; REVELATION SPACE, ABSOLUTION GAP, DIAMOND DOGS and CENTURY RAIN were shortlisted for the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD and CHASM CITY won the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD. You can learn more by visiting www.alastairreynolds.com. Klappentext 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. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito. 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... Zusammenfassung TERMINAL WORLD is a snarling! drooling! crazy-eyed mongrel of a book: equal parts steampunk! western! planetary romance and far-future SF.

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Reynolds, Reynolds Alastair
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9780575088504
• ISBN: 978-0-575-08850-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 195 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), hard SF; space opera; author of Revelation Space