![]() But they are not the people they once were. And they see it as the second coming of their god, and use it to take back Bekla and re-establish their empire. Generations later, a giant bear appears on the island the Ortelgans, now simple hunter folk, settled on after the fall of their empire. But the empire fell, the capital Bekla was conquered, and a new empire rose in its place. The title refers to an ancient god of the Ortelgans, personified as a giant bear, who was kept on an island inhabited by priestesses. It just happens to be better written than is typical for genre fiction. But Shardik is set in an invented land, at a technology level not far above Bronze Age, and is about a giant bear considered to be a god, or an avatar of a god, by a race of people. If anything, Penguin tried hard to pretend Adams had pretty much invented fantasy with their marketing for the novel. ![]() Two years after that book’s massive success, he published a… straight-up fantasy novel. Adams is best-known for Watership Down, an excellent novel about rabbits. ![]()
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