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Graydon Saunders is one of those ancient Usenet RASFW refugees, like me. Some of that crowd wandered off to other parts of the Net and continued their commenting ways. A few wound up as SF writers (Jo Walton, Ryk Spoor, etc). Graydon is one of the former who has abruptly become one of the latter.(If youre reading this post *on* Usenet, jokes on everyone who left, right?)(If youre Graydon, sorry about that abruptly. Seems that way to the rest of us, mostly.)This is a strange book, and not just because it is cliche-looking military fantasy that veers without warning into the murky waters of What kind of society are we fighting for? and What does an emergency backup plan for a civilization look like? And then wanders back to the grueling magical warfare.The writing style is that very particular brand of prose beloved of software geeks who learned people as a second language. It is careful, structural, recursive, and you sometimes need to read a line three times to see where it came from. I write this way. I *try* to go back and stick in periods and knock everything down to no more than three layers deep. I am being less careful in this review, because Ive just read all of _The March North_ in a sitting (long train ride) and its sunk in some.I dont usually quote in these reviews but I think I need to give the flavor:Passing for a Creek just to look at is tough, and if you look like a Creek, being anywhere near here without being able to explain where the previous six generations of your ancestors lived and what they did is impossible.Got that? Good. And you *will* need to read those lines three times, because the author tells you everything exactly once. *Maybe* twice, for foreshadowing and resolution, but then one of them will be indirect. Blink and youll miss major plot elements.Blink and youll miss the fact that the prose is entirely free of gendered pronouns. I noticed halfway through the last chapter -- I suspect the author deliberately stopped making it unnoticeable, there at the end. Its not a gender-free *story*; the narrator occasionally describes someone as a man or a woman; it just doesnt come up that often because this is the army and theyre soldiers first. Without the pronouns, if it doesnt come up, its not in the book. Take a lesson.I havent said what the book is about. Consider a world where magical talent has been popping up in the population for hundreds of thousands of years -- with a power law. So in a nation of (referring to the book) seven and a half million people, you might have two thousand sorcerers powerful enough to be effectively immortal and therefore become *more* powerful sorcerers. Fifty-odd who are powerful enough to subjugate the nation. A dozen who could wrap the nation around their pinky fingers and move on to the rest of the planet without breathing hard.Dozens of better-known fantasy series match this template, if you strip off the fake-Euro-medieval assumptions and look at the guts. Few of them go on to the obvious question, which is *why do you have a nation still standing?* You should have a flaming wreck of a slave-holding ruled by one sorcerer-king and whatever demons, monsters, and slightly-lesser sorcerers hes bothered to brain-ream rather than kill. Or she. Doesnt matter to the slaves.This book pulls an answer out of one additional assumption: that its more efficient to pool power voluntarily than to coerce it. (Philosophically palatable to you and me, I hope.) Thus, the Line: a volunteer army that marches under a standard sworn to the Law and serving the Peace. With staff thaumaturges.(Why does the Peace need an army? Because theyre surrounded by militant sorcerer-autocracies, and also demons and monsters galore. Magic has not left a lot of friendly terrain on the planet.)The slant of the military lifestyle is convincing (at least to me); the protagonist knows what both sergeants and COs care about. The protagonist also knows what an ox cares about, which is relevant both to the military (no army without supply wagons!) and the greater picture (armies fight, but someones gotta grow the food).The author is up-front about drawing inspiration from Glen Cooks Black Company stories. Id also trace lines to Steven Brust (see the enchantress older than recorded history), John M. Ford (he had a horror of being obvious), and Derek Lowes Things I Wont Work With chemistry blog.There is also a five-ton war-sheep named Eustace. If I havent sold you by now, I dont know what the hell you think youre looking for in speculative fiction.(_The March North_ is self-published as an e-book. If you buy it from Google Play you can download a DRM-free EPUB file. I think its in the Kobo store too.)
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