[LMB] Floating Worlds Re: Two Reviews

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote:

> 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.)

I utterly, completely, and absolutely ADORED that book.

But I was 13 when I read it.

I wonder how well it'll hold up to a re-read.

~malfoy :)


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