Juvenile Science Fiction Title

September 6, 2011 3:45 PM

I am looking for a juvenile science fiction series I read as a child in the 70s. The books were written in either the 1960s or 70s. I vaguely remember a book that may have been called "Rebel Planet" or "Rebel Prince" and it featured talking battle horses. I remember one passage where a horse turned back to its rider and asked "Kill?" when confronted with an unfriendly.
posted by zzazazz to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

The French geologist and scifi author who wrote in the 1950s and 60s under the pen name Francis Carsac had one novel called Les Robinsons du Cosmos that featured belligerent talking centaurs, and another novel called Terre en fuite that did not feature any equine creatures, I don't think. A long shot, but perhaps?…
posted by Nomyte at 4:46 PM on September 6, 2011

Sounds like Robert Adams's Coming of the Horseclans series.
posted by technocrat at 9:35 PM on September 6, 2011

Response by poster: Neither of those suggestions sounds right although the Robert Adams stuff sounds intriguing.
posted by zzazazz at 9:40 AM on September 7, 2011

It's not The Horse and His Boy, part of the Chronicles of Narnia series, is it? Just about all the animals in the Narnia books can talk. I don't remember a "Kill?" part, but it has been 25-odd years since I've read the books. :(
posted by xedrik at 11:14 AM on September 7, 2011

Response by poster: Definitely not Narnia. These books were more straight forward science fiction. I am starting to think I dreamed them.
posted by zzazazz at 4:48 PM on September 7, 2011