Description
In a world of semi-autonomous city-states called zones, each community is bound to a rigid technological “level” enforced by the physics of reality itself. When a near-dead posthuman “angel” arrives from Spearpoint’s Celestial Levels, a morgue pathologist named Quillon is pulled into an exile that takes him beyond the safety of his home—into cold, hostile territory where the zone system is beginning to fail. As Quillon navigates shifting politics, dangerous outsiders, and the strange rules that govern what people can build and become, he must decide what to trust when even reality shows signs of instability. Blending noir atmosphere with sweeping speculative imagination, this novel explores themes of control versus freedom, the fragility of constructed worlds, and what it means to survive when the universe rewrites the terms of existence.
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paperback
Orbit
Published Dec 21, 2021
512 pages
ISBN: 9780316362290
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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