Kael McCanahan was a Terran officer with a simple life, until the warlock of Sharrador took it from him. Noorlythin commands powers that defy comprehension: a mind capable of reshaping reality itself, and the sfarri, an army of tireless machines that execute his will without question. Now only McCanahan stands between the warlock and the galaxy he threatens to unmake. He carries nothing into this darkness but a hunger for vengeance and a stubbornness that refuses to accept the impossible. The question isn't whether one man can defeat a god. The question is whether anything short of miracles can save what remains. Gardner F. Fox wrote this in an era when science fiction believed the human will might be the most dangerous force in the universe. The Warlock of Sharrador pulses with that optimistic dread: the certainty that the enemy is nearly omnipotent, paired with the stubborn conviction that it doesn't matter. This is pulp adventure at its most mythic, where heroism isn't about power but about refusing to stop.
