High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terminal World is a 2010 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds (ISBN 978-0-575-07718-8). It is a standalone novel set in the distant future, and it chronicles the journey of Quillon, a pathologist forced into exile. The Gollancz hardcover edition of the book was published in March 2010 in the United Kingdom. The Ace Books hardcover edition was published in June 2010 in the United States.