The novel “Terminal World” by Alastair Reynolds was published for the first time in 2010.

Quillon is an angel modified to survive at the lower levels of the building called Spearpoint, where energy states don’t allow his people to live. His life is now among common human beings but after years of working as a pathologist a dying angel is brought to him who tells him that a faction of their people wants to find him.

Confident that the angels don’t want anything good for him, Quillon turns to Fray, the only human who knows his secret and who helped for his cover thanks to the number of contacts and services not exactly legal he manages. Fray explains to him that his only hope is to get away and gets him the services of Meroka, a specialist in that type of missions. During the escape, they come across Kalis, a woman with a strange daughter, Nimcha, shortly after a violent change of zones with different energy states.