What Makepeace finds is a world unraveling: stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization. Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism. Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace-sheriff and perhaps last citizen-patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. How to get your own book title flairīy: Marcel Theroux | 288 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopianįar North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Got any questions or requests? Feel free to message the moderators. Like in all subreddits we ask of you to please respect the reddit wide rules.Please use spoiler tags as to not reveal important plot points. You can use Markdown to make your links look nicer. If you believe your comment or submission has been removed because it included an Amazon link, please message the mods.īeware: Link shorteners are automatically removed by the spam filter. If you are found to be excessively promoting your book in the comments, you will be banned.īeware: Amazon links could be caught in the spam filter. This is not the place to advertise your book. Any illegal content will be removed at the moderators' discretion. If you want to include a link in your suggestion we encourage you to link to the author's page or to an amazon alternative.ĭon't link to illegal content. Top level replies must be suggestions or question to clear up the request. Don't attack the requests or any suggestions made, and definitely do not attack or scold individual users (it's sad really, that we actually have to specifically say this.) No Meta posts about this or any other subreddit.No "Should I read this book / is this book any good?" posts.Any submission with a link will be removed. Please use the text box to formulate your request in a clear and precise manner. Title-only posts will be summarily removed.IF YOU COME HERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ADVERTISING A BOOK, YOU WILL BE BANNED.įor book promotion please visit /r/wroteabook. This subreddit is for people to ask for suggestions on books to read.įor general discussions about books please visit /r/books or /r/literature.
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