Larklight

This book is a steampunk novel, which is a sub-genre of science fiction, and is written by Phillip Reeve. In order to read this novel easily, you have to pretend that Sir Isaac Newton had his great discoveries about how to make the chemical wedding; which allowed the aether-ship to travel in space with the speed that even faster than light. This novel is about an adventure of the Mumbys in the 1850’s, when British men had started to explore the Solar System. Arthur Mumby is an Earth boy, who lived in an asteroid, called Larklight (actually it was a mechanic house - made by a super power of an unearthly creature, named Shaper). He had a sister, which always tried to be as most ladylike as she could, named Myrtle Mumby. Their parents were Edward and Amelia Mumby; their father worked for the Royal Xenological Institute and their mother had believed to die a few years ago.

Their life would be the same as everyone else until...one day, the Mumbys received a letter, which said that a mysterious guest would come and visit their old house. However, the next day, they woke to find that their guest was not an Earthly person; but a gigantic white spider of the size of an elephant – Mr. Webster!!! The white spiders covered their Larklight with a thick layer of strong unearthly web; then they kidnapped their dad, Edward. Fortunately, Art and Myrtle were able to escape to the Moon in and luckily met some new friends – as they rescued Art and Myrtle from the human-eating Potter Moth. These new friends were a boy of about their aged, Jack Havock; with his crew – three were from the Moons of Jupiter and another was not from any places of the Solar System, but from somewhere in the Universe. Jack was known by the British as a horrible space pirate and an ugly man; but truly, he was just a normal Earth boy. Art and Mumby followed their new friends to their aether-ship, Sophronia; although Myrtle hated Jack and his crew. They travelled to Jack’s old home, which was on Venus, and here Jack told Art and Myrtle about his tragedy childhood on Venus with all his family changed into trees; then Jack was carried to from the Royal Xenological Institute and met his crew at there. As soon as the story was finished, the white spider sudden attacked Venus and kidnapped Myrtle. At this point, Art realised that all his family had been taken apart from one another and even their dear home! Therefore, the Sophronais agreed to help Art, finding his family back even they had to die.

Through this novel, you would find out more about the true friendships; the great adventure of the teenagers in the wide aether; the whimsy love between two main characters; and surprisingly ending! Read now and find out!!!