Lord Nelson in Spaaaaaace!
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Today is the release day for my friend David D. Levine’s first novel, Arabella of Mars. The story features the Napoleonic Wars fought between planets by a sailing navy, and showcases a young heroine described as “a Patrick O’Brian girl fighting a Jane Austen world.”Previous post: Crescent Moon Kingdom
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Have you read David Drake’s Royal Cinnabar Navy books? They’re a deliberate homage to the Aubrey/Maturin novels, in an interstellar empire setting.
That line about “a Patrick O’Brian girl fighting a Jane Austen world.” reminds me: I once heard Patrick O’Brian speak here in Portland (he was on a publicity tour). During the Q & A session after his speech, someone asked him something along the lines of what did he think of women as authors? His answer was “You must remember that, without women, we would have no Jane Austen!”.
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