The Finisterre Universe · #1

Rider at the Gate

C. J. Cherryh

Fantasy Science Fiction
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A forgotten colony lost on a planet of wild beauty and unimaginable danger. A people held together by a renegade band of outcast heroes, called to their destinies by alien dreams. A world of Riders and Nighthorses, their minds linked together on the knife-edge of an abyss – for even a single Nighthorse can annihilate the human race.

And now one Nighthorse has gone insane...

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1995
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Cherryh\'s take on books with telepathic horses. Her nighthorses seek human company for two reasons: humans provide them with 1) memory and 2) bacon.
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