Mindworlds

Reviewers and other writers compare Phyllis Gotliebs science fiction to the works of many of the greatest masters of the field; Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Cordwainer Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin. An SF literary award has been named for her first novel, Sunburst. Her most important work in recent years has been a trilogy of SF novels begun in Flesh and Gold, continued in Violent Stars, and now completed in Mindworlds. In a galaxy where humanity and other species were seeded among the stars in the distant past by a mysterious, vanished alien super race, there are now many inhabited worlds. On one of them, the Lyhhrt, small telepathic beings who live inside robot shells, are in a cultural crisis. Their warring factions wont hesitate to use humans as pawns to win their internal battles.