Terminal World Lib/E
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>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, 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. 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.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>Lee delivers tense escapes, gutsy fight scenes, and unfeasible coincidences with aplomb.-- "AudioFile"<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>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.<br/>Revelation Space and<br/>Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award;<br/>Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and<br/>Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and<br/>Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.<br/><br/><br/>John Lee has read more than 100 audiobooks. His work has garnered multiple Earphones Awards and won<br/>AudioFile's Best Voice in Fiction & Classics in both 2008 and 2009. Lee narrated the audiobook for<br/>A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, volume four of<br/>A Song of Ice and Fire. He has also read for Jack London, John Banville, Charles Dickens, and Barbara Taylor Bradford. In addition, Lee narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has written and co-produced the feature films<br/>Breathing Hard and<br/>Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963-64<br/>Doctor Who serial<br/>The Daleks.
Terminal World Lib/E Reynolds Alastair
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>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, 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. 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.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>Lee delivers tense escapes, gutsy fight scenes, and unfeasible coincidences with aplomb.-- "AudioFile"<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>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.<br/>Revelation Space and<br/>Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award;<br/>Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and<br/>Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and<br/>Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.<br/><br/><br/>John Lee has read more than 100 audiobooks. His work has garnered multiple Earphones Awards and won<br/>AudioFile's Best Voice in Fiction & Classics in both 2008 and 2009. Lee narrated the audiobook for<br/>A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, volume four of<br/>A Song of Ice and Fire. He has also read for Jack London, John Banville, Charles Dickens, and Barbara Taylor Bradford. In addition, Lee narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has written and co-produced the feature films<br/>Breathing Hard and<br/>Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963-64<br/>Doctor Who serial<br/>The Daleks.