Cloak of Aesir is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer 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 SF under Campbell's pseudonym Don A. Stuart.
Contents Introduction "Forgetfulness" "The Escape" "The Machine" "The Invaders" "Rebellion" "Out of Night" "Cloak of Aesir"
Six of the seven stories were later included in the 1976 collection The Best of John W. Campbell (Ballantine/Del Rey).
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.""Spacemen's Realm", The New York Times Book Review, February 8, 1953, p.24 Groff Conklin characterized the collection as "somewhat overwritten, but still well done.""Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1952, p.134 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."."Recommended Reading," F&SF, October 1952, pp.43-44 P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "all top-notch idea-stories . . . laying the foundations of the more adult stuff we know today.""The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, August 1952, p.128
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