Pierre Pelot is one of the grandmasters of modern French science fiction. His writing career spans over 40 years and includes over 200 novels in various genres, from westerns to science fiction, and crime thrillers to prehistoric novels. His books have been translated into twenty languages. However, this is his first translation into English. The Child Who Walked on the Sky (1972) is Pelot's third science fiction novel, in which a maladjusted eight-year...