Cloud's Rider

The sequel to Rider at the Gate continues as a seamless narrative on the unrivaled partnership forged between human colonists stranded on a planet whose only native life forms are linked by telepathy, and the native nighthorses, who fiercely guard the humans against the planet's mind-clouding predators. The hero of this story is Danny Fisher, a young rider whose will is tested through fateful confrontations with an older rider named Guil Stewart and a miscreant horse, whose incongruous telepathic sendings drive entire villages to madness and death. In the distant past, colonists from Earth are stranded on a planet that is deadly to humans: the native wildlife is telepathic and the horrific images they project are enough to drive humans insane. Their only defense is to live in isolated communities protected by nighthorses. High in the mountains, Danny and his nighthorse are snowed in for the winter. Their greatest problem is an unseen predator that begins to prey on the humans…

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