The Dandelion Farmer.

A Steampunked Science Fiction Adventure on Mars.

by Mat McCall

Part of the The Dandelion Farmer series:

The Dandelion Farmer.

Editions:Kindle - 1: £ 1.99

Steampunk meets Science Fiction adventure on the Wild Western Frontier of Mars. The Dandelion Farmer is a Victorian style Science Fiction novel set in the Martian colonies twenty-five years after they threw off the rule of the old Imperial powers. Edwin Ransom is a young, idealistic botanical fuel grower, the eponymous Dandelion Farmer, who is barely scratching a living out of the red earth. Edwin’s quiet life is intruded upon by the henchmen of Eleuthère Du Maurier, a ruthless fuel industrialist who wants to drive Edwin off his lands. As tensions mount, Edwin encounters Adam Franklin, a wandering amnesiac with a terrible secret. Intrigued by Adam’s mechanical hand and the mystery surrounding his lost memory, Edwin decides to try to help his new friend. But unknown to Edwin there is far more to Du Maurier’s desire for his land than just his craving for real estate and dandelions. As events spiral out of control, Edwin and Adam find themselves on a race across Mars for the very survival of mankind.

Published: October 1, 2017
Genres:

Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Alien Races, Sci Fi - Colonization, Sci Fi - Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic, Sci Fi - Steampunk, Sci Fi - Weird Sci Fi

Tags:

author - british

Tropes: Aliens Among Us, Band of Misfits, Becoming a Monster, Conspiracy, Dark Enemy, Dystopian Governments, Evil Megacorporation, Farmer to Hero, Quest, Redemption Arc
Word Count: 180000
Setting: Mars
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Aliens Among Us, Band of Misfits, Becoming a Monster, Conspiracy, Dark Enemy, Dystopian Governments, Evil Megacorporation, Farmer to Hero, Quest, Redemption Arc
Word Count: 180000
Setting: Mars
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters

Excerpt:

"From the day our kind set foot on Mars, strife and bloodshed has followed in our wake. At first the wars of conquest against the Martians, and then the continuing strife between the colonies of the old Earthbound Empires.
Though independence promised us a dream of a brave new world, the path to it has been choked in blood, as age-old enmities, we should have abandoned back on Earth, seek to claim our future.
And Mars itself, holds no tenderness nor succour for us, the children of Terra. This is not a world to be called home. It is but the bloody altar of an ancient War God, upon which we are sacrificed."
FRIAR GODFRIED, SERMO AD POPULUM, PUBLISHED, AMENTHES, MARS. 1890.

About the Author

Author of The Dandelion Farmer, founder of Steamcycle & Organisator of the Steampunks of Gloucester.

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