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"A fanciful romp through a cosmic 1812, Hugo Award-winning Levines first novel is a treat for steampunk fantasy fans." - Library Journal (starred review) Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabellas mother takes the girls back to London, where theyre sure to find suitable husbands among the ton. Weighed down by Earths gravity - and her own unhappiness - Arabella dearly misses her father and their shared passion for automata. When she learns of his death, she also uncovers her cousins devious plot to travel to Mars, murder her brother, and claim the family inheritance for himself. To foil his dastardly plans, Arabella disguises herself as a boy to gain employment on an airship to Mars. Though she is valued by the captain for her talent with the automaton navigator he invented, she must survive French privateers, mutiny, and her own unmasking, only to reach a Mars embroiled in rebellion . . . "If Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and Patrick OBrien had sat down together to compose a tale to amuse Jane Austen, the result might be Arabella of Mars. So. Much. Fun!" - Madeleine Robins, author of the Sarah Tolerance Regency mystery series "A very clever and entertaining start to a memorable saga." - Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times-bestselling author "Arabella, a human teenager born on Mars, is catapulted into adventure in a tale that cleverly combines some of the most intriguing elements of steampunk and classic science fiction." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
David D. Levine is the author of Andre Norton Award winning novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016) , sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus (Tor 2017) and Arabella the Traitor of Mars (Tor 2018) , and over fifty SF and fantasy stories. His story "Tk'Tk'Tk" won the Hugo Award, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell. Stories have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Tor.com, five Year's Best anthologies, and his award-winning collection Space Magic from Wheatland Press.David is a contributor to George R. R. Martin's bestselling shared-world series Wild Cards. He is also a member of publishing cooperative Book View Cafe and nonprofit Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc. He has narrated podcasts for Escape Pod, PodCastle, and StarShipSofa, and his video "Dr. Talon's Letter to the Editor" was a finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert.David lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in Portland, Oregon. His web site is www.daviddlevine.com.
