Cloud Dancer???

[cuba johns]

Hi, Fellow Readers--

Am looking for a book I read in the late 1970's, scifi/fantasy, on an alien world being explored and catalogued. The world had a native life form that had degenerated through playing devices much like flutes. When played, the flute/device gave rise to fantastic life forms and histories of the world that soared amongst the clouds, hence the term.

Has anyone got an idea of the book that I am remembering? If you do, I would sincerely appreciate the title/author!

Thanks,

Cuba

 

[sueelleker]

Hi, Fellow Readers--

Am looking for a book I read in the late 1970's, scifi/fantasy, on an alien world being explored and catalogued. The world had a native life form that had degenerated through playing devices much like flutes. When played, the flute/device gave rise to fantastic life forms and histories of the world that soared amongst the clouds, hence the term.

Has anyone got an idea of the book that I am remembering? If you do, I would sincerely appreciate the title/author!

Thanks,

Cuba

Cloudcry by Sydney Van Scyoc? "Three incurably ill patients, escaping into the unexplored jungles of a quarantine planet, discover two primitive humanoid species, the magnificent deserted temples of a long-dead race of mighty sky-dancers, and a savage humanoid girl who seems to be a throwback to the sky-race. The girl's gradual mastery of her hereditary powers is played out against the plight of the two sick humans and the atavistic reversion of their companion, a birdlike alien."

 

[cuba johns]

Cloudcry by Sydney Van Scyoc? "Three incurably ill patients, escaping into the unexplored jungles of a quarantine planet, discover two primitive humanoid species, the magnificent deserted temples of a long-dead race of mighty sky-dancers, and a savage humanoid girl who seems to be a throwback to the sky-race. The girl's gradual mastery of her hereditary powers is played out against the plight of the two sick humans and the atavistic reversion of their companion, a birdlike alien."

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! I am so grateful for an answer to the insistent question of the book--please accept my thanks. I intend to purchase a copy to revisit a youthful memory--

You are the best--again, thank you! --cuba

 

[sueelleker]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! I am so grateful for an answer to the insistent question of the book--please accept my thanks. I intend to purchase a copy to revisit a youthful memory--

You are the best--again, thank you! --cuba

You're welcome-have you read any of her other books?