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AND THE BATTLE OF VENUS by David D. Levine Official
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Synopsis
The
thrilling adventures of Arabella Ashby continue in the second book in
Hugo-winning author David D. Levine's swashbuckling sci-fi, alt-history series!
The
swashbuckling Arabella Ashby is back for brand new adventure in the ongoing
story of her life among the stars.
Arabella’s
wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are
interrupted when her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a
prisoner-of-war camp on swampy Venus. Now, Arabella must find passage to an
enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war, bribe or fight her way past
vicious guards, and rescue her Captain.
To
do this she must enlist the help of the dashing privateer, Daniel Fox of the
Touchstone and build her own clockwork navigational automaton in order to get
to Venus before the dread French general, Joseph Fouché, the Executioner of
Lyon.
Once
on Venus, Arabella, Singh, and Fox soon discover that Napoleon has designed a
secret weapon, one that could subjugate the entire galaxy if they can’t
discover a way to stop Fouché, and the entire French army, from completing
their emperor’s mandate.
REVIEW:
Set in the early 1800's there is a mix of fantasy and historical
fact in the story. Be advised that the heavy duty backstory and world building
were done in Arabella of Mars so for the most enjoyment read that first. I
found Arabella and the Battle of Venus to be a much darker book than Arabella
of Mars. When I read the authors notes I though I saw why. That said like the
first book it is filled with interesting characters, a strong tension filled
plot and exciting action.
Praise
for ARABELLA OF MARS
“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. In an alternate 1812, Arabella’s mother moves her three
daughters to Earth and away from the wild influences of the Martian colony.
When the family gets news that Arabella’s father has died on Mars, the
headstrong 17-year-old girl disguises herself as a boy and hires on with one of
the great ships that sail the solar winds between the planets, planning to
protect her brother, who’s still on Mars, from treachery. Along the way, she
faces privateers and mutiny, but Arabella is resourceful and courageous, gamely
enduring hardship to accomplish her mission. Arabella is a fully realized
character, daring and willing to risk everything to protect the brother she
loves and the legacy that her father has left them. Her wits and cleverness
save the ship and crew more than once in this rousing swashbuckler.”— Publishers
Weekly, starred review
“
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
David
D. Levine is the multi-award-winning author of
the Regency interplanetary airship adventure novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016),
sequel Arabella and the Battle of Venus (Tor 2017), and more than fifty science
fiction and fantasy stories. Arabella of Mars won the 2017 Andre Norton Award
for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, his story “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006
Hugo Award for Best Short Story, his story “Nucleon” won the James White Award,
and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell,
Sturgeon, and Locus. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF,
Realms of Fantasy, Tor.com, numerous anthologies and websites, and multiple
Year’s Best anthologies, as well as his collection Space Magic from Wheatland
Press, which won the Endeavour Award for the best SF or Fantasy book by a
Pacific Northwest writer.
David
is a contributor to George R. R. Martin’s bestselling shared-world series Wild
Cards. He is also a member of Book View Cafe, a writer-owned publishing
cooperative, and Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc., a non-profit
organization which produces OryCon and other SF conventions. He has narrated
podcasts for Escape Pod, PodCastle, and StarShipSofa and the audiobook of Space
Magic, and his video production “Dr. Talon’s Letter to the Editor” was a
finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at the Mars Desert
Research Station, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert.
David
lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in Portland, Oregon. His web site can be
found at www.daviddlevine.com.
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