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Horizon
First edition
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
Cover artistJulie Bell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Sharing Knife, Vol. 4
GenreFantasy
PublisherEos (HarperCollins)
Publication date
27 January 2009
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages453 (hardback, 1st edition)
ISBN978-0-06-137536-1
OCLC232977544
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3552.U397 S57 2009
Preceded byPassage 
Followed byKnife Children 

Horizon is a 2009 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It is the fourth in the tetralogy The Sharing Knife.

Plot

With Fawn's prompting, Dag seeks out a teacher. A powerful groundsetter at local New Moon Cutoff Camp could be the answer to his prayers, but conflicts arise between the insular Lakewalker traditions and Dag's determination to be a healer for farmers. Dag, Fawn, Arkady the groundsetter and others embark on a long journey by wagon. They are joined by several other characters, some Lakewalker, some farmer, including Fawn's brother, Whit, and his wife, Berry. On their way up the Trace, a long wagon road, they encounter a malice, an evil being with great power. A Lakewalker kills the malice with a sharing knife. Fawn guesses that this malice was fleeing something even more powerful. That turns out to be a second malice. That malice is killed by Whit, aided by Fawn and Berry, which is unprecedented—no farmer has ever killed a malice without Lakewalker aid before.

At the end of the book, Dag and Fawn's vision of closer cooperation and understanding between Lakewalkers and farmers, as partners, is beginning to be achieved.

Characters

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