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Sophie Farthing is a survivor challenged by life with a gloomy and repressive faather. Somewhere beyond a forbidden theshold, her destiny awaits -if she has the courage and cunning to find it. For to know her future, Sophie must first pursue the past-and embarks upon an stonishilng journey from Earth to the Moon and across cold barbaric Mars in search of the perilous origin of her birth...and into the outstretched wings of wha has yet to be.

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This one was a deception. I was waiting for something crazy, steampunk and dickensian but that's not what I found. Sure, there are fun parts, but at some moments, I felt that I couldn't care less about what would happen to Sophie and the others.

I had a "too much of too many things" feelings. Too many aliens, too many planets. Everything just mentioned, nothing explored in depth. So I stayed out. There was so many great ideas in that novel. I loved the big vessels traveling with all sails on from planet to planet. Quite a sight in my head. But that will be the only thing I will remember about the book.

I love strange worlds, I really do. It was just a bit too much for me and it made me feel like an outsider.
Dealing with interplanetary Sailing ships, we have an author with a Dickensian style writing a father-search novel in an entertaining style. Deserving of more readers if LT has given me an honest count.
*note to self. Copy from A.

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Canonical title
Harm's Way
Original title
Harm's Way
Original publication date
1993-08
People/Characters
Sophie Farthing
Epigraph
Either for honour or for expectation of
profit, or from that unconscious necessity by which a
great people, like a great man, will do what is right, and
must do it at the right time, whoever had the means to
furni... (show all)sh a ship, and whoever had the talent to command
one, laid their abilities together and went out to pioneer,
and to conquer, and take possession, in the name of
the Queen of the Sea.

      -- James Anthony Froude, England's Forgotten Worthies
And this shall be my dream to-night;

I'll think the heaven of glorious spheres

Is rolling on its course of light

In endless bliss, through endless years;

      -- Emil... (show all)y Bronte, How Clear She Shines
So many worlds, so much to do

So little done, such things to be

      -- Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
Dedication
In Memoriam,
Angela Carter,
Fireworker
First words
Rain.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But how beautifully their wings shine, golden in the sunlight.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6057 .R374 .H37Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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Reviews
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Rating
½ (3.52)
Languages
English, Finnish, French, German
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
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