Quillon

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.

Archive 2010-03-01 Liviu 2010

Leaving on the edge of reality- and that is "real reality" as in hard physics not as in metaphor - just does not fit with the sort of normal, business as usual societies described in the novel, and Quillon reflects that too with attitudes that alternate between common sense and ridiculous.

Archive 2010-03-01 Liviu 2010

In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue.

Archive 2010-06-01 2010

In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue.

**Updated** (Form Fixed) Giveaway! "Terminal World" by Alastair Reynolds 2010

For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news-to save the angel's life, Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city.

Archive 2010-06-01 2010

Quillon, it turns out, is a surgically altered angel; other angels are now trying to kill him, and he flees down into the broader world -- also afflicted by different zones including one, the Blight, in which even the 'mechanisms' of biological life cannot work.

Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

We start in Neon Heights, a late-20th-century Noir-ish city; and we start with Quillon, a beanpole Mortuary Pathologist and Doctor and, most of all, virtuous man.

Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Quillon, it turns out, is a surgically altered angel; other angels are now trying to kill him, and he flees down into the broader world -- also afflicted by different zones including one, the Blight, in which even the 'mechanisms' of biological life cannot work.

Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010

We start in Neon Heights, a late-20th-century Noir-ish city; and we start with Quillon, a beanpole Mortuary Pathologist and Doctor and, most of all, virtuous man.

Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news-to save the angel's life, Quillon must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city.

**Updated** (Form Fixed) Giveaway! "Terminal World" by Alastair Reynolds 2010