What Mad Universe?!?
An adventure through the history of pulp SF and fantasy!
5 days ago

S5E130 -Chapter One Hundred and Thirty: The Power Of God In The Great Bear!

On SHARDIK, by Richard Adams

Sometimes a bear is just a bear. And sometimes the bear is the avatar of the ineffable divine, serving as a sign that it's time to reconquer your lost empire. The trick is knowing which is which. We attempt to solve this conundrum in the latest WMU?!? on Richard Adams' Shardik, a fantasy novel--or is it? About a bear who is a god--or is he? So many questions. Can we at least know if he pees in the woods?

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