Get a Horse!

Author:

Niven, Larry

Publication date:

1969-10

Publication type:

Short Story

Published:

Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969

Opus No.:

Setting:

Svetz

I.U.C.:

s. 1

Characters:

Hanville Svetz; Ra Chen

Summary:

This is the first Svetz story. Terrified time-traveller Hanville Svetz is sent back to the pre-atomic age to capture a horse—a simple-sounding task, until Svetz' horse turns out to be....!

Notes:

First Svetz story, renamed "Flight of the Horse."

Reprints:

Anthology, The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction, 19th series, edited by Edward L. Ferman; The Saturday Evening Post, June-July 1974; Graphic, Questar, Golden Press; Graphic, Starstream, edited by Roger Elwood; Anthology, Unicorns!, ed. Jack M. Dann & Gardner R. Dozois, Ace 1982; Anthology, Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Horse Stories, ed. Roger Caras and Martin Greenberg, Galahad, 1993; Anthology, Unnatural Creatures, ed. Neil Gaiman, Harper, 2013; Flight of the Horse, The; Rainbow Mars; Best of Larry Niven, The