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On his fifteenth birthday in the summer of 1880 future sciencefiction writer MP Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redondawhere with pomp and circumstance he was declared the islands king A few years later when Shiel set sail for a new life in London his father gave him some advice Try not to be strange It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming