The Slaves Of Heaven [Hardcover]

Edmund Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1974

FIRST EDITION - NOT THE LATER BOOK CLUB EDITION. "Berry, chief of his clan, knew his people could survive the dangers of the forest; and when winter came he made them build barricades against raiders from other clans. But no barricades were strong enough to hold against the Night Comers - huge silver beings of horrifying strength who carried away the womenfolk and were drastically lowering the human population. Were the Night Comers men, monsters or gods? Berry believed they were man; and when the inevitable night came when the women of his clan were seized, he managed to follow. He followed them to a huge tapering column of metal, which took him away from the world he had known to an island in the sky called "Heaven." And there Berry realized that he had to defeat the Lords of Heaven if the people on Earth were to survive."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 148 pages
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399112847
• ISBN-13: 978-0399112843
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,139,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Hopefully Helpful Review, Where None Exist, February 10, 2005

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J. Wesemann "The Best Knee Boarder In The World" (Poplar Bluff, Mo. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slaves of Heaven (Hardcover)

OK there is no current synopsis for this book so I felt I might give one, and hopefully someone may read this and decide to try out this book. So here it goes. In the distant future mankind has managed to destroy its earthly civilization. On Earth man has regressed to roving bands of hunter gatherers once again, one lone man becomes head of his tribe, just in time to have the messengers of heaven come down and steal women from his tribe. He manages to stowaway on their ship and is taken into space to a space station in Earth's orbit, where he finds that before the war the upper crust of society shuttled themselves into several space stations, and eventually each nation's station were connected to create one large station. Now the women of these stations have become baren and cannot produce children hence the stealing of the "primitive" women from Earth. Our hero is taken in and educated by the tech. class aboard, and this action proves to turn the station upside down as he becomes self aware and angery at the ruling class aboard. Don't want to reveal too much just thought this might help someone make a decision concerning this book. Thank you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Tribal Atheist in Heaven, October 3, 2005

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Sailor Barsoom - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slaves of Heaven (Hardcover)

Here we have Berry, of the Londos tribe. An innovative man, and courageous, he wins to the chieftainship of the Londos, despite the uneasiness some feel over his lack of faith. Yes, Berry is one of those rare men who believe that there are no Gods, no Heaven, no life after this one. But even Berry has to admit that the Night Comers are very real. Imagine the surprise felt by an Atheist who finds himself a slave in Heaven!

This has more sex than Cooper's "The Overman Culture," and the sex is more explicit. This will bother some and delight others. The book would still be good if it were toned down, but is not ruined because it is not. More action of the running and fighting kind, too, than "Overman," but in fact I have to say that I liked "Overman" just a teensie bit better.