Description
| Product ID: | 9780575108233 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Title: | Floating Worlds |
| Authors: | Author: Cecelia Holland |
| Page Count: | 640 |
| Subjects: | Science fiction, Science fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A seminal feminist SF novel of the highest literary quality, comparable to the works of Joanna Russ and Ursula K. LeGuin. The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars. Earth''s Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of conducting the talks falls to an intelligent, resourceful and unpredictable young woman, Paula Mendoza. Her initial meetings with the Styth warlord and his unruly band of bodyguards and advisers are not promising. |
| Imprint Name: | Gateway |
| Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-12-08 |