Harm's Way

by Colin Greenland

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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.… (more)

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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. (

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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.
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*note to self. Copy from A.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Colin Greenland	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Morrill, Rowena	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXIV, No. 1 & 2 (January 1994) by Stanley Schmidt

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British Science Fiction Association Award (Shortlist – Novel – 1993)

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Harm's Way

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Harm's Way

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1993-08

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Sophie Farthing

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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
furnish 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;

-- Emily 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.

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In Memoriam,
Angela Carter,
Fireworker

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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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Sophie Farthing is a survivor challenged by life with a gloomy and repressive father. Somewhere beyond a forbidden threshold, 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 astonishing 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 what has yet to be.
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From the Notebook of Sophie Farthing:

Life on Mars wears you down. After a while the heavy red sand that creeps into the folds of your clothes and the creases of your body finds its way into your brain, into your very sleep, rubbing you away and making you its own. You knew what was natural in Toulons or Towcester - but they are fifty million miles away. And you are on the shores of a cold desert of rust where the dead walk and leave no footprints...

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