Slaves of Heaven

by Edmund Cooper

Book Overview

A Spring 1974 selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. "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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425027929
• ISBN13: 9780425027929
• Release Date: April 1975
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Tribal Atheist in Heaven

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.

A Hopefully Helpful Review, Where None Exist

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.