Floating Worlds - Hardcover

Holland, Cecelia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394493303 ISBN 13: 9780394493305

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976

Synopsis

"On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke."--Chicago Tribune

"A magnificent novel.a colossal achievement.an instant contemporary classic."--Science Fiction Review

"A.SF masterpiece."--Kim Stanley Robinson

When the Styths, a powerful and aggressive race of mutants from Uranus and Saturn, launch pirate raids on ships from Mars, Earth's Committee for the Revolution sets out to negotiate peace. The task falls to the resourceful and unpredictable Paula Mendoza. The initial meetings hold little hope for success--until Paula adopts a less conventional approach and appears to obtain her objective. But, the consequences for Paula prove considerable, when she finds herself on the floating cities of the Gas Planets, the tenuous, and only, link between Earth and the Styth Empire.A profoundly moving portrait of one determined and strong-willed woman.

About this title

About the Author:

Cecelia Holland was born in 1943 and is a well-known and acclaimed writer of historical fiction. Floating Worlds is her only SF novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

Though highly skeptical of her "anarchist" government, gutsy Paula Mendoza rises from the ranks of the unemployed Earthish to become its peace negotiator in the escalating war between the Middle Planets and the Gas Planets in this latest by Cecelia Holland (The Pillar of the Sky), whom the Chicago Tribune has compared to Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula Le Guin. Paula's methods (which include sleeping with the enemy) are innovative, to say the least, and they land her in troubled waters in the startling and epic Floating Worlds.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0394493303
• ISBN 13: 9780394493305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 465