Shardik Author:Richard Adams Shardik is on the same epic scale as Waterfhip /down, and is the same fiercely compulsive reading. There are many more similarities, which owe nothing to lack of inventiveness. It too is the story of a quest, of fearsome journeys ending happily. It is an allegory, strewn with many analogies with the religions, ideologies and power struggles of t... more »oday...Shardik himself is strong mean who comes rearing and roaring before a forest fire, among semicivilized men whose cult is to pray for the return of just such an incarnation, the Lord Shardik, the Power of God.« less