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This is one of those book that leave you wondering how you had missed it until now. A fast-paced adventure that has you successfully suspending your disbelief in a series of ways, while you encounter a sequence of unique characters � most of which seem oddly familiar and some of which you recognize immediately. An experience that leaves the reader with a sensation similar to waking from a memorably vivid dream.

My enjoyment of this particular edition (Ace Books, 1966) was enhanced by the three Forewords written by Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle. They prepared me to enjoy this work as a cult classic and to view its setting � The Commonwealth � as representing the literary universe. And in my humanistic perspective, that is equivalent to representing the Western consciousness that has accumulated iconic figures and tales through the centuries.

After finishing this book, I was curious as to how it had been added to my reading list. The credit goes to an NPR review by Tasha Robinson of Patrick Ness’s The Rest of Us Just Live Here in October 2015, in which she discusses characters that slip from one story to another and for that reason likens Ness’s book to Silverlock, Mike Carey’s Unwritten, and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. I read the Fforde series a couple years ago, and it did come to mind occasionally while reading Silverlock. They were both amusing in the same manner.�