[LMB] Floating Worlds Re: Two Reviews

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Speaking of pathetic... anyone remember a book called, iirc, Floating 
> Worlds? I bought it many years ago. It was sf, or presented as sf. It 
> involved human settlement in artificial hollow spheres orbiting Neptune. 
> And it DIDN'T MAKE SENSE to me. The more I read, the more baffled and 
> irritated I grew... till I suddenly realized, "Oh, this isn't sf at all. 
> It's Ro-o-omance, so none of the 'science', or its social implication, 
> has to make sense at all!"

By Cecelia Holland? She's a writer of historical fiction, not romance. 
(I find her style so totally turns me off -- within one or two pages -- 
that I cannot read her books. But YMMV.)

-- 
Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

"Life is a play that doesn't make sense, while a play is life that does." -- Yann Martel