TERMINAL WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 10010010B41894
English Summary/英文概要： 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 . . .
TERMINAL WORLD is a snarling, drooling, crazy-eyed mongrel of a book: equal parts steampunk, western, planetary romance and far-future SF.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Spearpoint，人類最後一個的城市，佇立著巨大尖塔大氣穹頂。緊挨在一起的區域，是一連串的半自治城邦，其中每個城邦各有不同 — 各自嚴格執行城邦的法令 — 各自擁有不同的技術水準。Horsetown是一座工業化前的城鎮；在霓虹燈高地他們有電視和電動火車 … …科技高速的發展著，隨著一項滲透性任務的嚴重失利，Quillon從此只能隱姓埋名，成為區停屍房的一位病理學家。但當幾近死亡的天使墜落在他的解剖台時，Quillon的再次陷入糾結萬分的情境，這個長著翅膀的天使來自Spearpoint的天體水準 — 而這具垂死的屍體對他來說簡直就是一場災難。Quillon如果要挽救他的生命，就必須離開他目前的家園，離開Spearpoint遠行至冰冷和敵對的土地，他無法想像自己即將要開始的流放生活。但岌岌可危的還有Quillon自身也面臨著生存的問題，受限制的區域技術不僅受政府和警方的掌控，他還有面對的更多值得操心的現實問題…… (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："[A] wildly imaginative genre stretcher. {Reynolds] tells his tale with such verve that you just keep turning the pages."---Nevill Hawcock, FINANCIAL TIMES "A rousing adventure in a widly original setting."---Eric Brown, THE GUARDIAN
"This is sci-fi as an intellectual balancing act. We’re offered airborne battles and plenty of action too. It’s almost the most convincing steampunk novel you’ll ever read."---Jonathan Wright, SFX
"There are flashes of the energy that drives the big sequences in the Revelation Space trilogy."---Maureen Kincaid Speller, INTERZONE
About the Author/作者介绍： Alastair Reynolds(阿拉斯泰爾•雷諾茲) 1966年生於南威爾士，就讀於Newcastle和 St Andrews大學並獲得天文學博士學位。1991年，他移居荷蘭，在歐洲宇航局擔任天體物理研究工作。他的前三部作品中 Revelation Space 獲 Arthur C. Clarke 和 英國科技小說獎的提名； Chasm City獲得了英國科技小說獎， 第三部為Redemprion Ark，也是榜上有名的暢銷書。
Reynolds完成了他星際小說的三部曲。 在他的第一部小說 REVELATION SPACE中為我們打下了銀河星際大戰的伏筆，在本集中，他將我們帶入了未來時空，人類面臨著 Inhibitors的挑戰， Inhibitors是一群沒有思想的機器人，他們想滅絕一切太空中出 現的文明。他們最新的目標是人類，但有一小部分人類擁有了武器和技術，可以與 Inhibitors抗衡，但從長遠來看，最好的方法還是離開這個空間。
Alastair Reynolds的這部作品可讀性極強，書中的人物牽動讀者的心，對太空 美麗和災難的描寫也淋漓盡致。是一部極其出色的太空歌劇。
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 gave up 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.
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