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In the distant future, enforcement agent Quillion is living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels. And to save the angel's life, Quillion must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city.

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  • "In the distant future, enforcement agent Quillion is living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels. And to save the angel's life, Quillion must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile lands beyond the city."@en
  • "Following a infiltration mission that went wrong, Quillion has been living incognito and working in a district morgue. When a near dead angel drops onto his dissecting table this is bad news as the angel is a posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels and Quillion must journey to zones where reality itself is showing signs of instability."
  • "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. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. 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."@en
  • "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. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. 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."
  • "De laatste woonplaats van de mensheid heeft de vorm van een toren, waarbij iedere verdieping een geïsoleerde maatschappij is met een eigen technologisch niveau."
  • "De laatste woonplaats van de mensheid en heeft de vorm van een toren, waarbij iedere verdieping een geïsoleerde maatschappij is met een eigen technologisch niveau."
  • "Das Überleben der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel Die Stadt Spearpoint ist die letzte Bastion der Menschheit auf einer unzivilisierten und lebensfeindlichen Welt, umgeben von halbautonomen Stadtstaaten unterschiedlichen technischen Standards. Der Engel Quillion lebt nach einer fehlgeschlagenen Mission inkognito in der Stadt, doch die Begegnung mit einem halbtoten Engel zwingt ihn, Spearpoint zu verlassen, denn seine ehemaligen Auftraggeber haben es auf ihn abgesehen. Mit der Schleuserin Meroka kann er aus Spearpoint entkommen, doch plötzlich steht nicht nur sein eigenes Leben auf dem Spiel, sondern das der ganzen menschlichen Zivilisation... Alastair Reynolds wurde 1966 im walisischen Barry geboren. Er studierte Astronomie in Newcastle und St. Andrews und arbeitete lange Jahre als Astrophysiker für die Europäische Raumfahrt-Agentur ESA, bevor er sich als freier Schriftsteller selbstständig machte. Reynolds lebt in der Nähe von Leiden in den Niederlanden."
  • "Science fiction outer space secret agent thriller."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Steampunk fiction"
  • "Science fiction, English"
  • "Science fiction, English"@en
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Science Fiction"

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  • "Unendliche Stadt Roman"
  • "Unendliche Stadt : Roman"
  • "Terminal world"
  • "Terminal world"@en

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