CLOUD WARRIOR

by Patrick Tilley ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 1984

First of a series: a willfully inconclusive post-nuclear yarn, from the author of Mission (1981). A millenium after nuclear war, the US is inhabited by Amerindian-like tribes of ""Mutes""--primitive, robust, deformed, slow-witted warrior-farmers. They're led by their psychic, intelligent ""wordsmith"" Mr. Snow (repository of the tribe's oral history); his young seer/apprentice Cadillac, and Clearwater--who's nubile and telekinetic. Meanwhile, from underground cities, the ""Trackers,"" remnants of technological civilization, are bent on wiping out the Mutes by sending forth armed, armored ""wagon trains"" escorted by ""wingmen"" flying solar-powered gliders. But Mr. Snow, who converses with the know-it-ali Sky Voices, has foreseen the mystical coming of wingman Steve Brickman. So, following a bloody assault on a wagon train, the Mutes duly capture Brickman--who soon falls in love with the human-normal Clearwater. The Mutes object. And Brickman is forced to flee in a rebuilt glider --leaving all the main issues, hints, and prophecies here shabbily unresolved. Churning, sometimes, but YA-ish and with no real surprises-so only readers prepared to get involved in the series will stick around long enough for that blatant non-ending.

Pub Date: June 1, 1984

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 1984

Categories: FICTION