Hugo Award-winning author and illustrator Ron Miller says
"As an author who has a clear prediliction for strong female
protagonists I found myself very much taken with David Debord's Shanis
and her story. He has eminently succeeded in achieving that
all-too-rare accomplishment: a believable heroine---and a believable
fantasy heroine, at that---by a male author. Shanis can be---and
probably will be---placed on the same plane as such classic heroines of
heroic fantasy as Robert Howard's Belit and Red Sonja, C.L. Moore's
Jirel of Joiry or Leigh Brackett's Ciaran. "The Silver Serpent" is a
superb story told believably and unpretensiously by a superb new
fantasy author."
Ron Miller
The Grand Tour, Bradamant