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Reader reviews liscarey. A steam-powered cyborg. Mad Max-style savages. And a city on a spire of--something--rising into the sky, on a cooling Earth. Overlaying everything are the zones, little understood but very carefully mapped, because what technology works depends on what zone you are in. Highest up on the spire of Spearpoint are the Celestial Levels, where the angels dwell, modified humans who can fly and who are heavily loaded with nanotech inside them.

Because the nanotech won't work at any lower level, angels can't leave the Celestial Levels. He's the last survivor of an infiltration mission from Celestial Heights, his wings and nanotech removed, under a false identity, working as a pathologist. Until a barely-alive angel fallen from the Heights is brought to him, with the message that the faction that sent Quillon to Neon Heights now wants him and the knowledge hidden in his head back--and they don't need him to be alive to get what they need.

Quillon has to run, out of Spearpoint altogether, and right now. He turns to Fray, who might be considered a local fixer, and one of the few friends Quillon has made. Fray quickly plans his escape, with a guide, Meroka, foul-mouthed, impatient, but very, very capable. Oh, and she hates angels, for reasons buried in her past, so it's just as well that Fray doesn't tell her Quillon is an angel in disguise.

What could go wrong? Along the way to getting shanghaied into the dirigible fleet called Swarm, they meet the steam-powered cyborg, ruthless, drug-addicted savages, a woman who might be a techtomancer and her five-year-old daughter, and the "vorgs," really nasty cyborgs who survive in part by harvesting human organs. Especially brains. And in the midst of all this, there's a major zone shift, the result of which is really exciting for everyone who isn't killed by it.

I really enjoyed this one. The characters are multi-leveled and compelling, and everyone you care about has a fundamental decency, albeit sometimes very deeply buried and expressed in quixotic ways.

The pacing is great, and the world is a fascinating one. Reynolds does not believe he needs to give us all the answers. There's plenty of room for a sequel, and I'm a bit surprised that there apparently isn't one. If I'm wrong, please correct me! I bought this book. Great book like all others I've read by this author. The world is very unique and the story really hooked me.

I just wish there was more information on what had happened. Maybe a sequel will cover that? I enjoyed the book as a whole, but I found the very ending unsatisfying.

No, frustrating more. It felt like there is room for a sequel, but none is coming. The physics of the world the author describes are interesting. I kept wanting to describe it to my partner. I did remain interested throughout the book, wanting to know what happened next. I won't be keeping it for rereading. This is the first novel of Reynolds I've read. I enjoyed it enough to not pass on another book of his.

Zohair Hussain. As you read this book, you will be confused and will try to go back to see if you missed a page. Words and categorization out of our daily lives is used but they do not refer to the same realities or belief systems we hold true in our world. All with a beautiful and emotional ending that left my throat dry and my eyes watery.

Changing zones, however, plays hell with the nervous systems of humans, leading to a need for medicines to help them adapt when they travel. This leads to an odyssey into the outside world, complete with some never-well-explained antagonists, the Skullboys, who provide a Mad Max-ish postapocalyptic vibe to the tale, discoveries about the forgotten history of the world, and an eventual return to Spearpoint.

A fun read, but not up to the quality of his other work. The setting is imaginative it's apparently set on Mars 5, or more years in the future, but the people living there think it's Earth. Something went wrong Good, despite being Steampunk. The story struggles a bit. Too vague and odd in the beginning and ends up being almost over explained towards the end. Lots of good parts but setting and characters never quite struck home with me. All in all: One of the weaker Reynolds books but I guess Steampunk a challenging genre if you stay clear of Victorian romance, handwavery and magic.

Terminal World definitely makes the best of it, convincing and exciting. Alastair Reynolds is most popular for his hard sci-fi opera type books, but with this one he takes a slight deviation and brings some new elements to the story. Here you'll find a mix of steampunk, mystery, angels, airships, cyborgs, and a strange tower, all wrapped at it's heart with exotic physics that is just barely hinted at as the story unfolds.

But in the end, the writing stands out clearly as Alastair Reynolds. I didn't consider this among the best of the Reynolds books, but I still felt like it deserved four stars most of his get five stars from me, especially anything 'Revelation Space' related ; I admit, I'm partial to the real hard science stuff he typically does. But the characters felt real enough, with a reasonable amount of character development.

There could have been a bit more detail in the airship battles, but that's probably just me. The plot moved along at a good pace balancing action with discussions. In the end there isn't a full and complete explanation for how and why things exist in their current state no one knows who built the tower or why , but there is enough to close the story and leave you with something to ponder. I suppose it leaves enough open ended question to allow for the possibility of a sequel if the author ever chose to return to this world.

I found this to be a nice twist on the steampunk theme and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys that genre. That doesn't mean it's bad, though -- far from it! While the lingering disappointment that there will be no hyperspace chase scenes or stars being sung apart via mind-bogglingly ancient and malign intelligences never wholly leaves the die-hard Reynolds fan reading this book, if that reader is also a fan of steampunk, as I am, there will still be much to enjoy in the story of Quillion, a fallen "angel", and his perilous journey across a barely-recognizable planet Earth in the extremely distant future.

Reynolds has long been classed in with China Mieville and others as part of science fiction's "New Weird" movement, largely, I think, due to his taste for the baroque and the grotesque he shares with Mieville the Melding Plague that forms -- or deforms -- so much of the Revelation Space universe still creeps and grosses me out. With Terminal World he draws much closer to Mieville, especially to the Mieville of The Scar, most of which takes place on a floating city of hundreds of ships and boats lashed together to sail the oceans of Bas-Lag.

That's right: a flying city composed of hundreds of airships not blimps, as we're disdainfully reminded several times by Swarm's residents. I defy any steampunk fan not to swoon at the thought.

Quillion's world has been the victim of a mysterious calamity, to create which Reynolds has taken the notion of a holographic universe and run with it to strange places. The planet is now riddled with zones of differing "resolution," which only allow certain levels of technology to work. Spearpoint is the nexus of this crisis and as travelers descend its downward spiral they proceed from "Circuit City" which seems to enjoy our own present level of development at least to "Neon Heights" which seems to be in the s or s down to "Steamtown"!

How this state of affairs has come to be is never fully explained but it has something to do with Spearpoint's original function as something radically different from just a corkscrewing platform on which to build a city. We learn only a little of this original function as it is lost, all but ancient history, close to completely forgotten.

If I give the impression that the world steals the thunder of the story and characters, that's largely the case, but that's not to say that there are not some compelling individuals populating the story. Curtana, female airship captain, can swash the buckler with any maritime hero of yore; Meroka, Quillion's guide out of Spearpoint, is tough and complex, as is Quillion himself in a different way. While he is out of his depth for most of the story, and often kind of helpless, he is sympathetic rather than annoying, and more than earns his keep before the tale is told.

Do recommend. The difference between a good book and a great book is sometimes just a little more patience and time rewriting it. The sf ideas in this novel were of the mind-bending quality that I've learned to expect from Reynolds. However, characters are sketchy, and their motivations inconsistent. Still, liked the book overall. It's the sf fix, I think. Ugh, this was so unsatisfying. The ideas behind it were great, but the main character was completely devoid of personality, the dialogue was bad and the middle third of the book sagged more than an 80 year old's tits.

It took me a few days to read the first third, 3 months to read the middle third, then about a week to read the last third. The ending was super abrupt as well. Nothing was answered. Now I have to go and read the inevitable sequel, which I don't know if I want to. It's so obvious. The longer years, the use of the phrase "fear and panic" being Mars' two moons , everything. Why couldn't this have been an actual reveal for the characters?

It would have added at least one resolution to the ending. The part I liked the most about this book was the discovery of Spearpoint 2, with the Chinese flag on everything, and the museum with the display of astronauts landing on Mars. There should have been more about this, and less about the goddamned vorgs and the medicine subplot which I gave no shits about.

I also liked the action scene when Swarm is approaching Spearpoint near the end. That was fun and cinematic. Users must be registered and receive an invitation from the developers to fully access the page and download any content. And one thing must be kept in mind that if you fail to log in 5 times in succession, your IP will be banned. Rutracker is a Russian torrent site that contains an excellent collection of everything - including audio books.

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In addition, what ideas he does have that have potential new uses for example, Angels are not really used to any great extent and are more or less irrelevant to the majority of the book As a result the storyline itself is over-familiar, and ultimately unsatisfying. While not actually bad, this is not a strong selection from Reynolds otherwise excellent stories For Reynolds fans, I'd say this is the weakest of his stories I've come across - I'd recommend most of his other work over this.

I particularly recommend 'The Prefect' as a far better story which is read by the same vocal talent. Reynolds always constructs extraordinarily intricate and ultimately logical worlds, and his central characters are usually fully drawn and complex as well. In this instance he nailed the world building but presented us with a leading character who is limp and unsatisfying.

Always the thoroughgoing altruist and nearly terminally naive, he wanders along, captive to the plot throughout, functioning primarily as a conduit for information between the various factions with whom he interacts. He is so passive that he is hard to believe as a survivor.

It is not the poor sap's fault since the author keeps him restricted and controlled throughout the entire book, but looking back on it I realize just how sick of him I was by the end.

There were secondary characters who were more dynamic and with whom readers would happily throw in their lot if given a chance, but they never emerged from their supporting roles.

Did someone say there will be a series? If so, perhaps the interesting world and the situation in which we are left hanging at the end of the book will provide a stage for giving one or more of the other personae the room to strike out on their own and give us someone to relate to and invest in. That could be worth a credit. I think it's clear at this point that after completing the many Revelation Space books that the author decided to explore a fascination with old technologies and settings, perhaps dating back to when he did Century Rain and heavily involved s Paris.

This time there is a spread of technology levels, but the book fundamentally takes place in near-zero technology levels, lending the story to wooden airships bound to the principles of air travel and gun warfare. For a long while I was dissatisfied with the trend of the story, but Reynolds always has that one part near the end of his books that suddenly drop intellectual bombs and grant you insider knowledge that sometimes even the characters can't fully grasp.

This book is no exception, but by the end I selfishly wanted just a bit more out of the world's lore. If I'm being honest, the strength of this story is that it gives you the silent treatment about the outside universe, although there is plenty of speculation provided by some characters. Reynolds even goes through his traditional trouble of presenting plausible explanations for complex problems, and then invalidates the characters' hypothesis so that he can make sure you know that he's in strict control of the story progression.

The untold story behind Terminal World is the way that things arrived into their current state, which would have been a stellar short story, like in the Galactic North collection, but that is likely never to happen. Besides, the strength of this as a story is, again, the assumption that humanity knows very little anymore about its past, save for vague scripture that presumably dates back to the incidents that resulted in the state of the world. I think that it's also worth making a note, as tangential as it might be, that the relationship development in this story is subtly more powerful than I expected.

Character development is always a key area for Reynolds, but the untold and between-the-lines development of Meroka with those around her, including a deniable interest in Curtana, her relaxation around Quillon, and her affinity for the young Nimcha and her loaned storybooks.

You might have horribly missed some very interesting information about "Earth". I really enjoyed listening to Terminal World and would rate this book much higher if it were the beginning of a series. But Reynolds has written Terminal World as a standalone novel which ends just as a great story is beginning so I found the book a real let down.

Reynolds sets up a great adventure tale that includes a nice mash-up of hard science and fantasy seasoned with steampunk elements. I really liked the scientific explanations for the variations in technology. Steampunk often just seems to be about cool gadgets and doesn't incorporate enough logic to make me happy and that's not the case in Terminal World.

As we follow the main protagonist, Quillon, and his cohort, Meroka, in their flight to escape assassination attempts on Quillon, we get pieces of the puzzle to explain how their strange world functions, how it came to be, why it is "broken", and how it can be repaired and the great escape slowly evolves into more of a quest. However, just at the point you start to understand the constructs and have an inkling of how this happened, the story ends.

It really feels like reading the first of a series and then having no second book available. There is a universe of room to expand and progress this story and I can only hope that Reynolds considers a sequel to "bring this story home".

Jon Lee does a good turn on narration and the voice he uses for the tough and sassy Meroka is perfect. On its own, Terminal World is entertaining and, like all of Reynolds work, the story will expand your mind to some very cool new concepts, but it ends on the cusp of something great and may leave you wanting much more.

As far as Reynolds' novels go, this is not at the level of Revelation Space, partly because Reynolds ends the tale without a satisfying resolution. We are presented with a different Earth 10k years in the future where the bulk of the population lives on a vertical screw-like structure reaching perhaps almost into space. The structure is vertically segregated into segments with unknown restrictions on the degree of technology that can function. Biology is a bit more forgiving, but people still experience "zone shifts" with resulting illness.

Our hero represents a modified "angel" from the highest or celestial level who is on the run due to vague factional, political differences. The bulk of the story is an adventure that alludes to the true purpose of the structure, "Spearpoint" and the "how it all went wrong". The ending doesn't so much as resolve the conflicts as it seems to merely explain the real work left to be done. As is Reynolds' style, the story explores human evolution and in this case, adaptability to extreme changes in some basic laws of nature.

What at first appears random and artificial, the zone boundaries for technology to function in reality, conforms on a loose basis with our world today with examples such as cell phones dropping bars, wireless connectivity being geographically dependent, or electrical outlets varying from country to country indicative of "zone shifts". This is now the 3rd non-Revelation Space novel that has left me expecting either more or a sequel to quickly follow; which is odd since novels set in the Revelation Space series have all been reasonably self-contained.

Alastair Reynolds has impressed me with his intellectual sorta-hard-SF space operas, but left me a bit cold in terms of characters and storytelling, the grand scope of his plots dwarfing the human elements. He's a bit like a colder Charles Stross who is not trying quite as hard as Stross does to impress you with his cleverness, even though he's very clever. Terminal World is a departure from his usual space operas - it's set on one world, that vaguely resembles Earth but isn't, in a post-apocalytic far future.

The setting is kind of steampunkish, but steampunk done in a hard-SF way, and more post-human than the usual pseudo-Victorian frippery. Quillon is a doctor living in a city called Spearpoint.

Spearpoint is, as its name implies, a towering sliver of civilization stretched up into the atmosphere, surrounded by a wasted, cold and drying planet. Spearpoint is divided into "zones" that determine what technology works there. At the highest levels are the Angels, who still enjoy advanced technology, while at lower levels are places like Neon Heights, Steamville, and Horse Town. Some places, electronics stop working. Other places do not even allow internal combustion.

And there are some zones where even humans can't survive. At first, the characters seem mostly uninterested in how this state of affairs came to be, because apparently it's been like this for thousands of years, and is now the accepted status quo. Indeed, we learn that despite the obvious remnants of what was once a great, highly technological civilization, most people have little awareness of history or a world beyond their own. It turns out Quillon is an Angel, or a former Angel. Angels can't normally survive in the low-tech lower levels, but he was part of a special infiltration project that went wrong and left him isolated among hostile humans or "post-humans" as the Angels call them.

When the Angels come after him, he goes on the run. His flight eventually takes him out of Spearpoint altogether, and across the wastelands which are occupied by Reaver-like "Skull-boys" and a rival civilization known as SWARM that exists entirely in the air, aboard a great fleet of zeppelins. So, Reynolds manages to give us sky pirates and zeppelin battles, and a world-saving adventure that does not really uncover the secret behind Spearpoint and its world, but gives us a few glimpses.

At times this felt like one of his epic space operas, albeit confined to a single planet, and at other times, it was more like a steampunk adventure. Zeppelin battles! I liked Terminal World - it feels complete, even with a somewhat vague ending. Clearly Reynolds could write more books set in this world, but it doesn't seem like he plans to. Alastair Reynolds is probably one of the smartest and best writers of hard SF and space opera today, the kind of SF that actually uses physics and big ideas.

Unfortunately, his writing still lacks an essential something to make him one of my favorites - it's as if there is always a certain lofty distance between author and creation that one can sense in his work. His characters are intelligent and interesting, but they are largely plot puppets. Still, this was going to be "three strikes and you're out" but it was more of a base hit, so I'll keep reading him.

I've no problems with his characterizations, and enjoyed the progression the main character made over time - but that having been said, the real strength of this book in my mind is the progression through the world itself, new, mysterious lands, ideas, and concepts. Through it all, a solid level of tension pervades, and I don't think think any portion felt like a real lull. The ending is both incomplete and complete - that is to say, you can see the direction things will go after the conclusion, and even envisage another book, but it might not be necessary, and can stand on it's own.

That having been said, I'll note I'm very comfortable with Reynold's style, and have more or less ended up binging on everything he's published recently! John Lee seems the perfect sci-fi narrator to me, perhaps because of prior experience - but I've developed a deep fondness for his voice over time, and this book is no exception. As usual Alistair Reynolds whiting is engaging and draws you into a world of his making and John Lee's performance is superb again, as usual. As good as the story is, just as the story looks like its going to get even more interesting, the book ends.

Spearpoint is an enormous city that rises vertically over a chaotic and apparently unpromising world. Machines seize up irreparably if you travel too far, and people need complicated drugs.

A dying angel plummets from his elevated level with a message for the cold and reclusive Quillon, provoking a well-paced journey in which our hero discovers something about all the aspects of his humanity, finds a finely conceived set of people groups who have each come to terms with their strange world in different ways, and grasps the secret of why all this is the way it is.

Alastair Reynolds is one of the most thought-provoking and readable hard-SF writers alive, partly because he loves his characters as much as his science. Indeed, most of his novels explore the boundaries of what it is to be human at every extreme. This tale scintillates because of the steampunk, gothic and fantasy elements he weaves in.

The icing on the cake for audiobook lovers is that this book as with all Reynold's audiobooks on Audible is read by the prolific John Lee, who could recite an instruction booklet for self-assembly furniture and make it sound poetic. I discovered reynolds about a year ago by recomendation from a friend. This was the final book I read of his after completing his back catalogue. No need to worry though this is pure Reynolds but in a reffreshing new setting.

The excellent characterisation is there along with the underpinning "big concept" that he does so very well.

As for the narration, I love the way Jon Lee does Reynolds. He doesn't go overboard with character voices but gives enough depth to distinguish them and he lends the prose real gravitas. I really enjoyed this book and if you love Reynolds' other stuff you will love this. It's just a bit different that's all. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent?

Why or why not? Mostly, yes. I was disappointed and frustrated that it ended when it did. It's as though the author got bored and had decided that we didn't need to know any more. The big thing that the book is leading up-to never actually happens.