![]() ![]() Shardik struck a chord with readers after it appeared. Lee’s favorite horse the massive Maia, the story of a sex slave in a fantasy empire and his short story collection Tales from Watership Down.Īnd in 1974, only two years after Watership Down, he produced perhaps his most ambitious novel, the epic fantasy Shardik, which The Wall Street Journal said “Grips with suspense, haunts with mystery… not to be read once but to be reread as loved books are.” He also wrote The Plague Dogs, the tale of two dogs on the run from a secretive testing facility in Britain Traveller, a retelling of the American Civil War through the eyes of Robert E. Watership Down is a brilliant book - wholly original, uniquely English in both setting and viewpoint, and possessed of the most exciting and satisfying climax I’ve ever read ( go Bigwig, you magnificent Owsla, you.) But it’s far from Adam’s only fantasy novel - or even his only worldwide fantasy bestseller. ![]() If I can get away with it, I sometime say Lord of Light, although that’s secretly science fiction (shhh).īut as the years go by, more and frequently I find myself saying Watership Down, by Richard Adams. ![]() I don’t have a standard answer - some days it’s The Lord of the Rings, some days Bridge of Birds. I’m frequently asked what my favorite fantasy novel is. ![]()
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