The Marching Dead, Lee Battersby
The Marching Dead, Lee Battersby
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The Marching Dead

Author: Lee Battersby

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2013

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

“Wry, absurdist, and pleasantly cynical, Battersby’s [novel] will appeal to fans of Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora and Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Find the dead a King? Tick. Save himself from a fate worse than death? Tick. Win the love of his life? Tick. Live happily ever after…ah.Having achived so much, Marius don Hellespont was finding life just a little boring. But now something, or maybe someone, has stopped the dead from, well, dying.So wouldn’t you know it, it’s up to Marius, incorrigible sidekick Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny, to journey across the continent and put the marching dead back in the afterlife, where they belong.“Great characters, story, pace, writing.” —British Fantasy Society

About Lee Battersby

Lee Battersby was born in Nottingham in 1970, departing from a snow-covered city in 1975 directly to a town on the edge of Australia’s largest desert. In November. He’s only just now beginning to recover from the culture shock. He doesn’t like to take credit for it, but there’s nothing to suggest that Angry Robot would have set up shop in town only a mere 30-odd years later had he stayed. Lee is the author of over 70 stories in Australia, the US and Europe, with appearances in markets as “Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror”, “Year’s Best Australian SF & F”, and “Writers of the Future”. A collection of his work, entitled “Through Soft Air” from Prime Books. He’s taught at Clarion South and developed and delivered a six-week “Writing the SF Short Story” course for the Australian Writers Marketplace. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australia Shadows and Australia Sf ‘Ditmar’ gongs. He lives in Mandurah, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby and an increasingly weird mob of kids. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks. He’s been a stand-up comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, and tax officer in previous times, and he currently works as Arts Officer for a local council, where he gets to play with artists all day. All in all, life is pretty good.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on May 23, 2013

Ah Marius don Hellespont, you thought you had retired. You got the girl. You saved the world. You got the lovely cottage out in the country with the white picket fence, surrounded by flowers, complete with the requisite cat. Well, that was maybe more her dream (especially the cat part), but Marius w......more

Goodreads review by Mieneke on April 20, 2013

Last year Lee Battersby's The Corpse-Rat King was one of the first books to come out of Angry Robot's first Open Door month and I was excited to see what could come out of such a process. While I did have some problems with the book – difficulties connecting to the main character and some pacing......more

Goodreads review by Ross on April 28, 2013

Imagine a zombie Jack Sparrow trapped in Wonderland, with the wits of Locke Lamora and the vulgar mouth of a dirty sailor. You might get an idea of Marius Don Hellespont. The Marching Dead is the sequel to 2012’s excellent The Corpse Rat King by Aussie-Author Lee Battersby. While I didn’t post my th......more

Goodreads review by Peter on August 29, 2014

I picked this book up at a sale, not knowing it was the second book in a series. As some of the reviews suggested it could be read independently, I decided to give it a go. Will I seek out the first book in the series after readin this one? Well, no. There's several reasons. The world in the Marching......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on December 03, 2016

Not a terrible book but beyond the premise, not that original. The story starts out light and lively but soon loses the light tone. I found some parts too earnest and other parts too cute. The protagonist is not a character that you really care that much about and the whole plot seemed a little weak......more

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