I’m grateful Levine has promised a sequel. There’s a mysterious captain, an intriguing automaton, pirates, Martians, a bit of romance, and so much more. Who could resist a world in which coal-powered ships sail to Mars, borne aloft by balloons of Venusian silk, doing battle en route with French privateers? To protect family and fortune, Arabella Ashby masquerades as a boy and takes a berth as a cabin boy on a fascinating voyage. “This rollicking interplanetary adventure captured my heart.

Arabella Ashby is a great character, and wonderful worldbuilding, tight plotting, and a breakneck pace make Arabella of Mars a real page turner! I look forward to the next book in the series.” ― New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney, author of Not Always a Saint and Once a Soldier Then a shocking threat to her family on Mars forces her to undertake a desperate, impossible journey back to the colony-a journey that will change her forever. Levine's first full length novel, Arabella of Mars, is the delicious love child of Jane Austen, Patrick O'Brian, and Jules Verne! Sent back to England from her family's estate on Mars, Arabella despises the life of a staid young Regency lady. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Levine offers adventure, romance, political intrigue, and Napoleon in space! Now Arabella just has to weather the naval war currently raging between Britain and France, learn how to sail, and deal with a mutinous crew.if she hopes to save her family remaining on Mars.Īrabella of Mars, the debut novel by Hugo-winning author David D. She disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of the Diana, a ship serving the Mars Trading Company, where she meets a mysterious captain who is intrigued by her knack with clockwork creations. However, when events transpire that threaten her home on Mars, Arabella decides that sometimes doing the right thing is far more important than behaving as expected. That is something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world Arabella has never seen: London, England. But days spent working on complex automata with her father or stalking her brother Michael with her Martian nanny is not the proper behavior of an English lady. Now, one century later, a plantation in a flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby, a young woman who is perfectly content growing up in the untamed frontier. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. When William III of England commissioned Capt. Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars.

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