Floating worlds - BoundCovers

542 pages

English language

Published 2000 by Gollancz, Distributed in the US by Sterling Pub..

ISBN:: 978-0-575-07142-1

(1 review)

2000 years in the future, runaway pollution has made the Earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus and the Moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On the fringes of the solar system, in the Gas Planets, a strange, new, violent kind of human has evolved.In this unstable system the anarchist Paula Mendoza, an agent of the Committee, works to make peace, and ultimately protect her people, in a catastrophic clash of worlds that destroys the order she knows.

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Will Sargent reviewed Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland

Review of 'Floating Worlds' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Incredibly obscure book, tracked down and read because it was an incredibly obscure book. Sadly, it's about as readable as the Worm Ouroborus. Leaving aside the style and aversion to using proper nouns, it's incredibly frustrating to read because it jumps around so much.

There is no exposition, repeat, no exposition. There are no periods where the characters discuss their options, or even work out where they are and what they're doing there. It's simply assumed that you know how this world works, and no attempt is made to explain it to you.

That's great on one level, because it's exciting and they're moving and everyone seems very decisive and intelligent. It's only when you put the book down that you realize you have no idea what just happened, except that it was fast and there was a lot of it.