Floating Worlds

Name: Floating Worlds
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Cecelia Holland
ISBN: 9798350893984

Author: Cecelia Holland

Narrator: Kristin James

Unabridged: 22 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/19/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race: "On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke" (Chicago Tribune).

Two thousand years into 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.

About Cecelia Holland

Cecelia Holland was born in Henderson, Nevada, in 1943 and started writing at the age of twelve. Starting with The Firedrake in 1966, she has published twenty-one independent historical novels covering periods from the middle of the first millennium CE up through parts of the early twentieth century, and from Egypt, through Russia, central Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, and Ireland, to the West Coast of the United States. She is also author of a series of five novels set in the world of the Vikings, covering a period of about fifty years during the tenth century and following the adventures of Corban Loosestrife and his descendants. The hallmark of her style is a vivid recreation of time, place, and character, all true to known facts. She is highly regarded for her attention to detail, her insight into the characters she has researched and portrayed, and her battle scenes, which are vividly rendered and powerfully described. Holland has also published two nonfiction historical/biographic works, two children's novels, a contemporary novel, and a science fiction novel, as well as a number of historical essays.

Holland has three daughters. She lives in Fortuna, California, and, once a week, teaches a class in creative writing at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on February 25, 2018

There was a meme I enjoyed during the 2016 election in the US when so many people were haranguing others with lesser-of-two-evils arguments into going along with Democrats. It said ‘If you don’t like the mafia, why don’t you join it and change it from the inside.’ At the time, I felt like the electi......more

Goodreads review by E.J. on December 27, 2010

There was a recent article about the top ten best unknown SCI-FI titles of all time and this was one of them. Having never heard of Floating Worlds or its author, Cecilia Holland, I decided to give it a read, not knowing it's a modestly large book at 600+ pages. The novel is set 2,000 years in the f......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on January 16, 2013

It has been two months since I first started the book, and three days since I finished it, and I am still trying to figure out what just happened. I can only tell you three things about this book... Floating Worlds has a very detailed and well thought out futuristic universe, complete with technology......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on June 15, 2015

I liked the amusing opening idea that anarchists would have their own committee to make sure that the anarchy didn’t get out of control. And I liked that in terms of female sexuality and cultural understanding it’s far beyond your normal 1940s novel. This is a book which absolutely transcends its ti......more

Goodreads review by Whitney (SecretSauceofStorycraft) on October 15, 2024

Whew! 😅 this is alot to unpack in a book. Holland is on par with Ursula Le Guin’s the dispossessed with a strange mix of Sherri Tepper and something that is her own. Her character was compelling and easy to read but not always clear. There was so much here I’m not quite sure I understood everything….......more