First appears in: The Metal Wood
Newfris, also known as New San Francisco, is a "floating, flying prison of a city" suspended three thousand feet above the Earth. Its physical appearance is striking: "The buildings of Newfris soared into the heavens as if trying to reach the stars. Great blocks of glass and chrome stretched upward, reflecting the sun. They were edifices to a world she would never be able to inhabit again". It is also described as a "majestic" maiden emerging from a pond, "filled with lights, all across the Under at the bottom of the city, blazing out with pinprick precision".
The city is structured by a severe class divide: the sunlit "topside" is seen as a "heaven" of houses and electric cars, while the "Under" is a world of "sewage and steel". The entire structure is protected by a shimmering "Shield" that keeps out a nanovirus the population believes is rampant on the surface. Ultimately, Newfris is revealed to be a component of the "Fennas Elenathon" device and is eventually "utterly destroyed" by Nelenor during a conflict over the city's power source, leaving nothing but "twisted, smoking metal" in the sky.