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Bezig met laden... Arabella of Mars (2016)door David D. Levine
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fun, light steampunk. Think of how Jules Verne pictured Mars and the passage between. Arabella runs away from home after having been forced to leave Mars for Earth. She pretends to be a boy and gets a birth on a sailing ship headed to Mars. ( ) This is a great, sweeping, Mars adventure, in the tradition of Burroughs, but also striding out imaginatively into uncharted territory. The airships between the stars remind me of Timlin's The Ship That Sailed to Mars, and the "science" explaining how this could be is a marvelous iteration of Victorian understandings. The audio book is soundly read, and Arabella herself is a winning character. There are some areas of repetition and self-inflicted drama that I found mildly annoying, but on the whole, hurrah for an epic Victorian Mars adventure! Hurrah for our plucky heroine and dashing Captain Singh! Long may they sail, and swashbuckle between the stars. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. 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. 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. That is something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world Arabella has never seen: London, England. 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. 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. 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." -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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