March Upcountry
- 608
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Weber and Ringo’s “March Upcountry” is a rousing military science fiction adventure about a prince and his bodyguards stranded on a hostile planet. Some readers treat it as comfort reading, a fun coming-of-age story that doubles as a tour of military history, without claiming it breaks new ground. It opens the Empire of Man series and runs to over six hundred pages of marching and fighting.
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About the book
March Upcountry is the first novel in the science fiction series of the Empire of Man by David Weber and John Ringo. It tells the story of Prince Roger MacClintock and his bodyguards of the Empress' Own Regiment who get marooned on the alien planet of Marduk due to an act of sabotage on their ship and must fight their way towards the local space port in order to get back home to Earth. The book appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Reading order · Empire of Man
Full order & progress →- March UpcountryThis book
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 71 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 9 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 62 | 87% |
Frequently asked
How long is March Upcountry?
It has 608 pages — longer than 81% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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