cover image Floating Worlds

Floating Worlds

Cecelia Holland. Gollancz, $14.95 (544pp) ISBN 978-0-575-07142-1

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.