Arabella of Mars

Arabella of Mars by Hugo-winning author David Levine is just the beginning of a series that will offer adventure, romance, political intrigue, meticulously worked out alternative science, characters to root for, and Napoleon in space!Ever 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, they proved that space travel was both possible and profitable.Now, one century later, a plantation in the flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby, a tomboy who shares her father's deft hand with complex automatons. Compared to her brother Michael, Arabella is more a of wild child than a proper young lady, something her mother plans to remedy with a move to an exotic world Mars-born Arabella has never seen: London, England.Arabella soon finds herself a Patrick O'Brian girl in a Jane Austen...