We’re thrilled to share the cover of March’s End by Daniel Polansky, a multi-generational portal fantasy of strange magics, epic warfare, and deadly intrigue—publishing May 9, 2023 with Angry Robot Books.
Sam Morgan of The Lotts Agency sold World English and audio rights to Eleanor Teasdale, Publisher and acquiring editor at Angry Robot Books.
The Harrows are a typical suburban family who, since time immemorial, have borne a sacred and terrible charge. In the daylight they are teachers, doctors, bartenders and vagrants, but at night they are the rulers and protectors of the March, an impossible world of animate antiquated toys and sentient lichen, a panorama of the fantastic where cities are carried on the backs of giant snails, and thunderstorms can be subdued with song.
But beneath this dreamlike exterior lie dark secrets, and for generation after generation, the Harrows have defended the March from the perils that wait outside its borders—when they are not consumed in their own bitter quarrels.
In the modern day the Harrow clan are composed of Sophia, the High Queen of the March, a brilliant, calculating matriarch, and her three children—noble Constance, visionary, rebellious Mary Ann, and tortured, clever Will. Moving back and forth between their youth, adolescence, and adulthood, we watch as this family fractures, then reconciles in the face of a conflict endangering not only the existence of the March, but of the ‘real world’ itself.
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Quote from Eleanor Teasdale:
“I’ve always loved Daniel’s writing, but March’s End blew me away. It’s an immersive fantasy world journey and I can’t wait for you to meet the Harrows, surburban family by day and rulers and protectors of the rich, bizarre, beautiful, and dangerous March by night.”
Quote from Daniel Polansky:
“March’s End is my attempt to marry the family saga of a Marilynne Robinson novel with the sort of high fantasy I adored as a child. I’m thrilled that Angry Robot will be bringing it out into the world and can’t wait for people to get a chance to read it.”
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Daniel Polansky is a baker and writer living in Los Angeles. His works include the Low Town trilogy, the Empty Throne duology, A City Dreaming, The Seventh Perfection, and the Hugo-nominated novella The Builders.
