Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine
Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine
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Arabella of Mars

Author: David D. Levine

Narrator: Bianca Amato

Unabridged: 11 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/23/2024

Synopsis

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, Arabella’s mother takes the girls back to London, where they’re sure to find suitable husbands among the ton.

Weighed down by Earth’s 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 cousin’s 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 …

“A fanciful romp through a cosmic 1812, Hugo Award–winning Levine’s first novel is a treat for steampunk fantasy fans.”—Library Journal, starred review

About David D. Levine

David D. Levine is the author of novel Arabella of Mars and over fifty science fiction and fantasy stories. His story "Tk'Tk'Tk"won the Hugo Award, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, and Sturgeon. His stories have appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, numerous Year's Best anthologies, and his award-winning collection Space Magic. He lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on December 16, 2017

3.5ish stars. This is a very fun YA steampunk that intelligently circumvents some of the most annoying tropes of YA in a way that makes it feel appropriate for both younger young adults as well as non-young-adult adults. :) In a clever alternate 1800s history when space travel takes place in airships......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on June 19, 2017

Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: What if Isaac Newton, instead of watching an apple fall from a tree and being inspired to develop a new theory of gravity, had observed a bubble rising from his bathtub and begun to meditate on space travel? Well, in the world of Arabella of Mars, a d......more

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on July 19, 2016

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths. Set on an alternate earth where Isaac Newton discovered the means for man to reach the stars in the late 1600s, Arabella of Mars captures the romantic, optimistic feel of classic science fiction. The environment of 1800s English society adding an elegant veneer to......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 28, 2016

Read an advance copy and loved it enough to provide the following blurb: Levine has created a wonderful alternate 19th century, with interplanetary airships, space pirates, automatons, Martians, and a young woman determined to save her family. This book reminded me how much fun reading can be, and ma......more

Goodreads review by nikki on May 03, 2017

cross posted from fox and fiction I knew two things going into this book: one, that the laws of the universe had been drastically altered to allow for sailing ships to float into space and the atmosphere outside of Earth to be breathable, in the year 1813, and two, that the main character disguises h......more

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