by Cecelia Holland (Author)
The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars, and Earth's Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of conducting the talks falls to an intelligent, resourceful and unpredictable young woman, Paula Menoza. Her initial meetings with the Styth warlord and his unruly band of bodyguards and advisers are not promising. But then Paula adopts a less conventional approach. The consequences for her are considerable and she finds herself on the Gas Planets, the only tenuous link between Earth and the Styth Empire...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Edition: New
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 16 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0575071427
ISBN 13: 9780575071421
Book Overview: * 'A superb, anguished panorama of the Solar System a few thousand years hence' Oxford Mail * A subtle and complex portrait of one woman set in a wholly believable and involving world * 'A neglected sf masterpiece' Kim Stanley Robinson * 'A cracking tale...excellent' The Times Literary Supplement