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In Floating Worlds, Paula is a woman to reckon with on several planets. Lover of the Prima of the Styths and mother of his son, she has tremendous galactic powers, and many mighty foes: rival factions on Styth; the fascist Sunlight League of Mars; the treacherous Committee members; and, most crucially, the mysterious Tanuojin who has healed her with his hands and has read her thoughts. Alone, she accomplishes what no one else could, until final choices, for herself and for mankind, must be made.
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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.
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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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Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland (First Edition) Gollancz File Copy
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Gollancz, London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0575022027
ISBN 13: 9780575022027
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Anna Jurinick(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland (First Edition) Gollancz File Copy A tight square copy with moderate edge wear. A quarter-inch bump to bottom of front board. Minor edge wear to the jacket and sunning to cover edges. Publisher's Archive Copy. First edition. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX9693-2
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Floating Worlds
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Gollancz, London, 1976
ISBN 10: 0575022027
ISBN 13: 9780575022027
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition UK. 465 pages. 8.7 inches. Red buckram, gilt titles. Book about as new, faint fade at very tail edge of spine, very lightly bumped at spine extremities. Faint speckle of foxing to tops, very faint mark at base edges corner. Internally, no owner's marks, faint trace of pricing on endpaper, tiny bookseller label on pastedown, contents pristine. In yellow jacket, red title-panel and lettering, vg with slight shelfwear, some creasing at upper edge. Space opera cum political thriller. Scarce in this edition. Weight before packaging 780g. Overseas postage would require addition. (Science fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Women) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # C14885
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