Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
The North Reading Group met on October 9th to discuss Terminal World, by Alastair Reynolds. The book was published in mid-2010 by Gollancz and Ace Books. It is set in the future, in a world with a geography resembling Mars, and begins in a city/structure called Spearpoint. “Zones” existing at different energy states are inhabited by humans, some modified to exist in specific zones. The zones are at different technology levels, and transitioning between them requires drugs and may induce debilitating or even fatal biological problems. The