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The Dandelion Farmer is a Steampunk-style Science Fiction adventure set in the Martian colonies twenty-five years after they threw off the rule of the old Imperial powers.Scratching a living out of the red earth of the newly independent Martian Colonies, the idealistic young Dandelion Farmer, Edwin Ransom, takes a stand against the powerful and evil industrialist, Eleuthère Du Maurier, who is trying to drive him off his land.As events spiral out of Edwin's control, he encounters Adam Franklin, a man suffering long term memory loss and haunted by nightmares of his own death.Edwin and Adam are drawn into conflict with Du Maurier's henchmen and are forced to flee to the safety of Edwin's father-in-law's protection.Professor Flammarion, Edwin's father-in-law, is a man with a vision. Believing that mankind on Mars is on the brink of extinction, he has brought an airship and is preparing to set off in search of what he believes to be the only hope of saving the humans on Mars; the last of the First Martians. The Professor enlists Edwin and Adam to join his eclectic group of scientists and adventurers in his perilous quest.Escaping from an ambush at the Tomb found on his land, Edwin, and the Flammarion Expedition, desperately seek the sanctuary of home. However even darker forces than Du Maurier, are massing against them and fate is about to deal them all a terrible blow.Questions remain unanswered; Why is Du Maurier so set on destroying Edwin? Who is Lanulos? Why was Adam brought back from the very edge of death? What is the change coming over Aelita, and exactly what is the enigmatic John Sydeian up to?As war between the old colonies grows ever closer, the Expedition members find themselves trapped in a nightmare adventure that will take them far beyond their homeland and possibly beyond reality itself.