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[james_davis_nicoll]

Where to buy The March North by Graydon Saunders

How to buy The March North by Graydon Saunders

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[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it. It's a solid fantasy, clearly inspired by Glen Cook, about how a decent republic might survive in a world of Dark Lord name magic without having to wait around for the White Rose to be born. The Graydon strange attractors are filed down, and they make more sense in an imaginary context anyway.

[brooksmoses]

This is the work formerly known as The Doorstop, yes?

I have been wanting a copy ever since I read an early draft many years ago and couldn't take it home with me....

[iayork.livejournal.com]

In the hope of saving some others a little time:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Graydon_Saunders_The_March_North?id=MoIOAwAAQBAJ&hl=en

Buy the book. Then:

In the Google Play Store, go to My Books, then hover over the top-right-hand corner of the book cover and click on the three dots that appear. That should get you a popup menu in which the last entry is 'download epub.'

I believe iBooks will read this format by default, if you're on a mac. Otherwise there are ways of converting it to Kindle, etc.

[asyouknow-bob.livejournal.com]

I successfully purchased (...and read and enjoyed...) it when it came out - - but now I have absolutely NO IDEA where the hell it resides on my computer.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

I bought it at Kobobooks, where you don't actually get a download option. Instead I had to install their own reader on my phone, which downloaded the book as a series of html pages, then use Sigil to create a proper ebook out of it...

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

The "where to buy" link has no working purchase links that I can see.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Been reading the sample chapters:

+: cool idea, and nice evocation of Black Company feel.

-: the writing feels like "this is why God made editors" or "why self-publishing has a bad name." Struggling with "who said this line of dialogue?"[1], wondering why militia and a district? council get called Wapentake and Gerefan. I've read enough about the Anglo-Saxon kingdom to think I know what a Wapentake is but don't see the connotative advantage to using the term; Gerefan was really obscure and seems to be "king's officials, probably corrupt".

Clarity or meaning redundancy don't seem to have been authorial priorities, which is a bit funny given that a review suggests civilizational redundancy is a later theme in the book.

[1] Though still not as bad as "professionally published" Brust-Tor, who produce dialogue cascades that I *know* have lost synchronization by the end, ABABABBA style, often enough that I wonder if Brust is deliberately pissing on the reader.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

It might be worth looking at Cory Doctorow's site to get an idea of how to publish DRM-free ebooks without torturing your potential customers.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

This was a pain to actually acquire, but well worth reading. The writing was eccentric, but I enjoyed it, the lack of strong gender markers was a welcome change (and blessedly didn't make the writing feel at all strained), and it's also a very rare and very pleasant thing to read about what is so clearly a crapsack work improving (at least locally), and seeing freedom and cooperation win out over brutal oppression - there's a distinct lack of this in much recent SF&F, although Alastair Reynolds' enjoyable, but non-awesome novel Terminal World has a similar feel. In any case, thanks for mentioning this, I doubt I would have encountered it otherwise.