The Mount

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The Mount (hospital)

Coordinates: 53°48′14″N 1°33′32″W / 53.804°N 1.559°W / 53.804; -1.559

The Mount is a psychiatric hospital based in Hyde Terrace, Leeds run by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It is the headquarters of Leeds Older People Inpatient Services. It comprises the perinatal service, older people's acute in patient assessment and treatment service, the chaplaincy, older people's psychology, dementia ward and the pharmacy.

Free Wi-Fi is provided in four of its wards, together with tablet computers for patients and their carers to use to help pass the time.

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The Mount (novel)

The Mount is a 2002 science fantasy novel by Carol Emshwiller. It won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2002, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003.

The author was inspired to write The Mount after she took a class in the psychology of prey animals. After the class, Emshwiller wondered what it would be like if a smart prey animal rode a predator. The idea fascinated her enough to write a short story which became The Mount.

Plot summary

The first-person narrator, Charley, is a young man who like all humans is used as riding mounts (e.g. horses) for an alien race known as Hoots. Humans in Charley's world, a pastoral Earth, have existed in a master-slave relationship with the Hoots for centuries. The Hoots, who have no way to return to their home planet, maintain the natural systems that keep the world running. Escaped mounts like Charley's father, formerly the Guards' Mount known as Heron, lead assaults on the stables where humans are kept and seek to unify their own people against the Hoots.