Cloak of Aesir

Cloak of Aesir
Cloak of Aesir  
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Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author(s) John W. Campbell, Jr.
Cover artist Hubert Rogers
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction short stories
Publisher Shasta Publishers
Publication date 1952
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 254 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC Number 1136776

Cloak of Aesir is a collection of science fiction stories by author John W. Campbell, Jr.. It was published in 1952 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazine Astounding under Campbell's pseudonym Don A. Stuart.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • "Forgetfulness"
  • "The Escape"
  • "The Machine"
  • "The Invaders"
  • "Rebellion"
  • "Out of Night"
  • "Cloak of Aesir"

Five of the seven stories were later included in the 1976 collection The Best of John W. Campbell (Ballantine/Del Rey).[1]

Reception

Writing in The New York Times, J. Francis McComas "warmly recommended" Cloak of Aesir, noting that "none of these stories follows its chosen path to an expected destination."[2] Groff Conklin characterized the collection as "somewhat overwritten, but still well done."[3] Boucher and McComas, however, praised Cloak for the stories' "amazing modernity of concept and extrapolation [and their] rarely achieved combination of original thinking and high adventure."[4]. P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "all top-notch idea-stories . . . laying the foundations of the more adult stuff we know today."[5]

References

  1. ^ http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t19.htm#A445
  2. ^ "Spacemen's Realm", The New York Times Book Review, February 8, 1953, p.24
  3. ^ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1952, p.134
  4. ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, October 1952, pp.43-44
  5. ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, August 1952, p.128

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