Saddling up your faithful steed to mount off into the sunset is one of those things best left to John Wayne . Sometimes . Here are some of science fiction ’s undecomposed substitutes for our friend , the horse .
Star warfare
It seems that galaxies far , far away are the best shoes to go for Equus caballus alternatives . Whether they be the gualamas or Obi - Wan ’s varactyl , Boga , in Episodes I - III , or the more old - school tauntauns on Hoth or the Tusken Raiders ’ Banthas , there does n’t seem to be much of a deficit of rideable animal .
A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L’Engle
Although the immortal Mrs. Whatsit first appear to be an older adult female at the beginning of the novel , she finally transform into a centaur - like creature with rainbow for wings , able to be devolve on by the children .
Dune ( series ) by Frank Herbert
The desert - dwelling sandworms are very great , not particularly attractive , many - toothed , omnivorous , and somehow entirely adequate to of being ridden , although it really is n’t a scene for the swooning - hearted .
“ Rider at the Gate ” and “ Cloud ’s Rider ” by C. J. Cherryh
The settler of a hostile planet tame its indigenous horse , called nighthorses . They ’re intelligent , telepathic , and have a hankering for Baron Verulam . ( You ’d consider I was making that last second up . You ’d be wrong . )
Nightmare ( Casper the Friendly Ghost )
Not a nighthorse this time , but an delightful ghost horse named Nightmare , friend and companion of Casper .
Comet ( DC Comics )
Comet is the horse addition that round down out all the surplus super animals that had their heyday in the 1960 ’s . Sort of Supergirl ’s favorite , Comet was once a centaur in Ancient Greece , but due to an inauspicious potion , was turned wholly horse . suction to be him . ( Although it seems he also get to spend prison term as a human too , so there ’s a plus of sorts . )
Sleipnir
Speaking of horses and ancient , nobody does a mythological gymnastic horse better than Sleipnir , steed of Odin , king of the gods . This eight - legged creature was fathered by a stallion named Svaðilfari and bear by Loki , the trickster god . And if you opine about that too long , your learning ability hurts . ( you may read a summary of the mythhere . )
Dragonriders of Pern(series ) by Anne and Todd McCaffrey
As the title suggests , the novels orb around people who ride firedrake on the major planet of Pern . The rider have forged telepathic bond with their dragons and use them to fight Thread , which is described as a deadly phenomenon that consumes all organic fabric in its path .
The Neverending Storyby Michael Ende ( and subsequent picture )
Falkor the luckdragon , with his strangely serpentine , doglike coming into court , flee the characters around , despite his lack of wings . ( His unrelenting skilful luck is also a definite plus . )
My Father ’s Dragonby Ruth Stiles Gannett
To stay on with the firedrake idea , this young adult novel secernate the fanciful tale of a male child ( the narrator ’s father ) journeying across an island to deliver a vernal dragon that had been captured by the island animals to ferry them back and forth across the river . ( bump the full textbook of the novelhere . )
Dinotopia by James Gurney ( and TV series )
The sentient dinosaurs on the island workplace together with the mass ( who were shipwrecked there ) to form a kind of utopian companionship , where all the denizen work together and the dinosaurs provide transferral for the people .
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