The Cloud Walker (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund Cooper
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—medieval future
- Time of Work: During the time of the Third Man
- Setting: Arundel, Sussex, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: England or English people, Technology, Hot air balloons, blimps, or dirigibles
- Locales: Sussex, England
The Plot
After the technological catastrophes that ended the civilizations of both the First and Second Men, the world turned away from science and machines. In England, the reigning Luddite church—named after Ned Ludd, a nineteenth century textile machinery saboteur— punishes the heresies of experimentation and technical innovation with death. More broadly, the country has returned to a medieval, peasant economy with a loose federation of nobles controlling the disunited nation and skilled trades governed by a rigid apprenticeship program.
Kieron, the protagonist,...
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