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.