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Description edit
Fomalhaut was first colonised by the posthuman Quick, who established an archipelago of thistledown cities and edenic worldlets within the star's vast dust belt. Their peaceful, decadent civilisation was swiftly conquered by a band of ruthless, aggressive, unreconstructed humans who call... read more
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Characters/People edit
- The Child: Daughter of Maria Hong-Owen, growing up in rural future Brazil.
- Isak Sixsmith: A librarian and harrower of virtual hells, disgraced when he failed to save his companions from a demon.
- The Horse: Isak's 'kholop', a post-human Quick servant who is his constant companion.
- Ori: A post-human Quick serving as a remote operator of robots working on the surface of the Whale.
Setting & Locations edit
- Fomalhaut: The star that the story centres on.
- Cthuga: A gas giant in orbit around Fomalhaut.
- The Dust Belt: A band of material in orbit around Fomalhaut that contains space-habitats on many tiny worlds .
- Homesun
- The Whale: A large factory and habitat floating in Cthuga's upper atmosphere, dropping a line deep into the gas giant.
- The Library: A reconstructed virtual environment containing data from Earth and dangerous demons.
- River Folk
- Jupiter
- Avalon
- Manaus
- Ull
- Sri
- Glitter Gulch
- Greater Brazil
- São Gabriel Da Cachoeira
- Tisin Nemo
- Maui
- Ulua
Organizations edit
- The Quick: A race of heavily genetically adapted post-humans, living as a slave race that supports the True.
- The True: A group of traditional humans living in numerous rival clans, some lead by powerful family heads, others like the Librarians serving a common purpose.
- The Ghosts: An invading group of post-humans, descended from a group of antagonists in the Quiet War, who fight in the belief that they can change the past.
First Sentence edit
When the Child was a child, a sturdy toddler not quite two years old, she and her mother moved to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, in the north-west corner of the Peixoto family's territory in Greater Brazil.
Glossary edit
- Megasecond: 1 million seconds, approximately 11.6 days
- Gigasecond: A billion seconds, about 32 years.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Paul J. McAuley (Author)
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