The Flight of the Horse

The Flight of the Horse

first edition of The Flight of the Horse
Author	Larry Niven
Cover artist	Dean Ellis
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	1973
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	212 pp

The Flight of the Horse is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Larry Niven, first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in September 1973, and reprinted in January 1974, January 1975, December 1976, December 1977, November 1978, January 1981, December 1982, and October 1985. The first British edition was published by Orbit Books in June 1975 and reprinted in 1979, 1982, August 1986, 1988, and March 1999. The book has also been translated into Italian. Most of the pieces were originally published between 1969 and 1972 in the magazines The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Playboy. The others are original to the collection.^[1]

The book contains seven short stories, novelettes and novellas, five of them featuring the author's dimension-traveling protagonist Hanville Svetz, including the title story, one in his "Teleportation" series and one in his "Magic Goes Away" series, together with an afterword. The Svetz tales were later included in the collection Rainbow Mars (Tor Books, 1999).^[1]

Contents

• "The Flight of the Horse" (Svetz)
• "Leviathan!" (Svetz)
• "Bird in the Hand" (Svetz)
• "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine" (Svetz)
• "Death in a Cage" (Svetz)
• "Flash Crowd" (Teleportation)
• "What Good Is a Glass Dagger?" (Magic Goes Away)
• "Afterword"

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