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Cloud's Rider (Paperback)

by C.J. Cherryh (Author)
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  • Paperback: 373 pages
  • Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New edition edition (17 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340689129
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340689127
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 912,243 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 defence 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...


About the Author

With critical acclaim, multiple awards and a string of bestselling novels to her credit, C J Cherryh holds a position as one of the most important science fiction writers of our day. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and took an MA in classics at John Hopkins University.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly written sequel to Rider at the Gate, 12 Jun 2001
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I was suprised to find that this was as yet unreviewed. C.J Cherryh has been one of my favorite authors for many years and I re-read her books on a regular basis.

This is the sequel to "Rider at the Gate" where the main protagonists were first introduced. However the book can and does stand by itself (the blurb on the back is helpful). The story is set on frontier-like colony in the late fall as true winter approaches. Humans are struggling to survive poor weather and telepathic predators and scavengers. Contact between villages is only possible if Riders act as guides and protectors. Each Rider has bonded with a nighthorse, one of the few alien lifeforms that humanity has befriended.

The start is typically slow, a young rider Danny and his nighthorse Cloud are trying to escort three orphaned children to the next village through a blizzard. Danny and Cloud do reach their goal with no major mishap and are able to deliver the children to the none-too-tender care of the village authorities, while he and Cloud are stabled with thw village's own Riders. However trouble has followed them up the mountain. The children are survivors of another village destroyed by a swarm of vermin, scavengers and an unknown predator that had been able to enter a heavily guarded gate. In addition the children are haunted in their dreams by a rogue nighthorse looking for a replacement Rider.

As the tale unfolds, the reader is submerged into the world. CJ Cherryh's narrative is like "surround-sound" for the mind; the pictures she paints and the images that she creates are so vivid that it is easy to lose all sense of time and find oneself reading avidly at three a.m. She depicts characters with an elegance of style that makes her dialogue all too easy to hear as you read.

If you have never read her books before, they ARE worth the effort,but they can take time to tune into. This is possibly not the best to start on (try one of the Chanur series), but it one that I keep coming back to , time and again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Sequel, 14 Jan 2005
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No one writes more persuasively about alien worlds and lifeforms than this author. This book is a sequel to Rider at the Gate so read that first but both are superb books that show C.J. Cherryh at the height of her craft. Rumours have it that a third volume in the series exists but will not be published because it is not sufficiently commercial. A great shame. These two volumes are a close second to the Chanur series and miles better than the Foreigner And Fortress sets of books.
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