Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 22 (p. 417)
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Terminal World
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 ...
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 24 (p. 455)
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 24 (p. 454)
“Do you think it means anything?”
“Probably not," Ricasso said, wiping his dust-smeared hands on his knees. “I’m all for looking for meaning in ancient texts. But now and then you have to just accept the fact that you’re dealing with so much religious gibberish.”
Chapter 22 (p. 413)
Terminal World (2010)
“This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.”
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 16 (p. 265)
“And you do not think that this is possible?”
“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”
Chapter 12 (p. 188)
Terminal World (2010)
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 11 (p. 177)
“She was pointing into the empty, angel-less heavens beyond.
Everything else. The universe.”
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 30 (p. 550; closing words)
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 22 (p. 405)
Source: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 14 (p. 232)
