The Cloud Walker [Mass Market Paperback]

Edmund Cooper (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 12, 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345232097
• ISBN-13: 978-0345232090
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,197,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taking glorious flight, February 18, 2005

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William Timothy Lukeman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cloud Walker (Mass Market Paperback)

In this short but powerful story of an artist & aspiring aviator in an oppressive future, the criminally neglected Edmund Cooper returns to one of his favorite themes: the need for the imagination to soar & find its own life, its own reason for being (see also his novella "The Firebird" in "Double Phoenix," for example). Like so many science fiction novels from the late 60s/early 70s, this is a concise, straightforward story without any unnecessary padding; yet it's also rich in detail, characterization & depth. I think it's Cooper's single finest work, and urgently in need of reprinting. Any reader of adventurous science fiction could do far worse than discover this stirring tale. Recommended!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short and sweet., October 27, 2004

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C. Campagna "apocalyptic hunter" (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cloud Walker (Coronet Books) (Paperback)

This novel could have been called Rise of the machines. Men has destroyed civilization twice and in the third age of Man, machines are proscribed by the Luddite Church.

The first part of the book introduces Kieron, an artist painter who want to fly. Anybody is thinking about Leonardo di Vinci? The pace of the story is slow but it is well written and the chapters are short so it all flows well.

The second part, however, is all about war and revenge. Strange how war always brings out the best in ingeniosity in men. I had a lot of fun reading this story and I expect you will.

5.0 out of 5 stars Cooper is completely out of print??, September 5, 2011

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jazmaan (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cloud Walker (Coronet Books) (Paperback)

Glad to see that a large selection of Edmund Cooper's works will be coming to Kindle in late Sept 2011. He deserves much wider recognition as a great writer of social science fiction.