Place · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The bowl

The air quadrant of bubble 543: a not-quite-circular bowl three miles across on top of the Necropolis of Anser, floored in stone under an inch of sand, stepped, dotted with wrecked flying machines from the last war, with a camel town at either end and a dome four or five kilometres overhead. It cracks in half under a whining puppy.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — Hump Town
Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
Chapter 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
Chapter 6 — City hall
Chapter 7 — The frog con
Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
Chapter 9 — Ruckus
Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
Chapter 11 — The Vahana
Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
Chapter 13 — Gerbils
Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Chapter 16 — Denise
Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
Chapter 25 — The Akula
Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
Chapter 31 — Emberus, summoned
Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
Chapter 33 — Phase three
Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

The air quadrant: sand over stone over a tomb and a forcefield cave-mouth to the quadrant below (ch. 1); wrecked flying machines from the last war (ch. 2, ch. 3); three miles across from a rooftop (ch. 2); five degrees hotter in the middle (ch. 9). Thorny devils by day, dune scythes in the heat, Night Frights in the dark (ch. 3, ch. 6, ch. 10), and a cyborg hawk roosting after each storm (ch. 8, ch. 9). Three craters and a hole in the tomb's roof from falling bodies (ch. 12); half of it breaks away under a puppy (ch. 29); a demon's whip cleaves what is left (ch. 34).