In this journey, Shandon Silverlock discovers a part of himself long suppressed in his native Chicago, and becomes in his own way a hero, a warrior, and perhaps a poet.īut Silverlock is much more than its surface. Named after Shandon, who becomes known as "Silverlock" for the silver-gray lock of hair above his forehead, it is on the surface the story of a not-terribly-likeable man who is separated from everything he knew, and finds himself in a strange land indeed, one with magic and monsters and warriors, a land with strange rules and even stranger destinies awaiting those cast upon it. Silverlock, by John Meyers Meyers, is one of the great classics of fantastic literature, though it is surprisingly little-known outside of fandom these days. Little does he realize what journey he has embarked upon… Golias' descriptions of this Commonwealth are strange, as are his remarks about himself, but Shandon ignores the oddities as the behavior of a man unhinged. ![]() Golias – Boyan Taliesin Golias – insists that they are approaching a place called "The Commonwealth", and there they will land… and, perhaps, survive. But a seemingly chance encounter with another castaway, floating in the water with him, gives him if not hope, at least some direction. When a storm sinks the ship he is on and he finds himself adrift, he also finds he has no particular reason to live. Clarence Shandon is a man of limited vision and less patience with anything he is unfamiliar with.
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