Talent Books In Order

To Ride Pegasus

They were four extroardinary women who read minds, healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future and became pariahs in their own land. A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of the everyday human race…
to enter their own!

Pegasus in Flight

As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind’s stepping stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center. Feisty and streetwise, twelve year old Tirla used her extraordinary knack for languages to eke out a living in the Linear developments, where the poor struggled to make ends meet and children were conscripted or sold into menial work programs. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. Both desperately needed help only other Talents could provide. With the appearance in her life of one extraordinary man with no measurable Talent at all, Rhyssa suddenly found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about her people. And when two Talented children were discovered to have some very unusual and unexpected abilities, she realized that she would have to reas*sess the potential of all Talentkind…
From the Paperback edition.

Pegasus in Space

In a triumphant career spanning more than thirty years, Anne McCaffrey has won the acclaim of critics, the devotion of millions of fans, and awards too numerous to mention. Her bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series is counted among the masterpieces of modern science fiction, a work whose popularity continues to grow as new generations of readers discover the literary magic only Anne McCaffrey can provide. Now that magic is back, displayed as breathtakingly as ever in the exciting and long awaited addition to McCaffrey’s classic Pegasus series and the perfect link to her bestselling Tower and Hive saga…
Pegasus in SpaceFor an overpopulated Earth whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up. With the successful completion of the Padrugoi Space Station, humanity has at last achieved its first large scale permanent presence in space. Additional bases are feverishly being built on the Moon and on Mars, stepping stones to the greatest adventure in all history: the colonization of alien worlds. Already long range telescopes have identified a number of habitable planets orbiting the stars of distant galaxies. Now it’s just a question of getting there. But there are those who, for selfish motives of their own, want Padrugoi and the other outposts to fail. People who will stop at nothing to maintain their power or to revenge its loss. Standing in their way are the Talented, men and women gifted with extraordinary mental powers that have made them as feared as they are respected and utterly indispensable to the colonization effort. There is Peter Reidinger, a teenage paraplegic who happens to be the strongest telekinetic ever, his mind capable of teleporting objects and people thousands of miles in the blink of an eye. Yet all his power cannot repair his damaged spine or allow him to feel the gentle touch of a loved one…
Rhyssa Owen, the powerful telepath and mother hen to Peter and the rest of her ‘children’ and a fierce, unrelenting fighter against the prejudice that would deny the Talented the right to lead happy and productive lives…
and Amariyah, an orphan girl who loves two things in the world above all others: gardening and Peter Reidinger. And woe to anyone who harms either one of them for the young girl’s talent may prove to be the most amazing of all. Now, as sabotage and attempted murder strike the Station, it’s up to the Talented to save the day. Only who’s going to save the Talented?

The Rowan

Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth’s Moon, Mars’ Demos and Jupiter’s Callisto.

An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family.

Damia

The Rowan was one of the greatest telepaths ever born, treasured by the people she saved from alien invasion and loved by a young man who never hoped to win her heart. In spite of his feelings, Afra remained loyal to the Rowan. He stayed by her side and helped to raise her Talented daughter, Damia. Now years later, Damia is a full grown Talent of great power. Terrible alien voices echo within her mind. And a wondrous new feeling for Afra is growing within her heart…
In a universe under seige, only one thing can defeat the power of fear: the power of love.

Damia’s Children

In Damia’s Children, one of science fiction and fantasy’s most beloved novelists, Anne McCaffrey, continues the story of psychic Talent begun with The Rowan and Damia. The Rowan’s next generation of passionate and talented descendants prepare to defend their worlds against an alien attack of mysterious origin. Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space. Hungry for more living space, they return with plans to dominate, armed with knowledge of the psychic defense they can expect from humanity. However, as it has been learned that Talent can be both bred and taught, the combined abilities of Damia’s Children make them an even greater power than Damia or her mother. Each child has a special Talent that together makes them the most powerful Gwyn Raven force yet to come. United they will confront the attackers face to face.

Lyon’s Pride

The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen until the powers of their children began to emerge.

Now the combined power of all these generations, especially the unique abilities of the younger Lyon clan, is needed to face once and for all the threat of the alien Hivers. The human worlds see themselves as peaceful, and traditionally they have used deadly force only in self defense, but now the time has come to take the battle with the Hivers out into space. A fleet of starships, with the powerful Lyon clan as its leaders, is sent into Hiver territory. Their mission: seek and destroy the Hiver threat that is lurking at the edges of known space.

The Tower and the Hive

The long awaited final volume in the New York Times bestselling Rowan saga. For generations, the descendents of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various Talents to help mankind some are powerful telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds. Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family. The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for. ‘McCaffrey continues to hone and extend this universe, which has become more convincing with each novel.’ Booklist

Catalyst

Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientist ship’s cat? All are essential to the well staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas’s carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humans Cat Persons with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers. Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value. Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnapped er, catnapped from Dr. Jared Vlast’s vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie’s newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie’s connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl’s son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they’re reunited. But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared. With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw Ra an alien looking cat with a hidden agenda to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction.

Catacombs

In Catalyst, award winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough introduced listeners to the beguiling Barque Cats: spacefaring felines who serve aboard starships as full fledged members of the crew. Highly evolved, the cats share an almost telepathic bond with their minders, or Cat Persons until, suddenly, there is no almost about it, and a particular Barque Cat, Chester, learns to ex change thoughts with his human friend, Jubal. Other cats soon gain the same ability. Behind the seeming miracle is a mysterious cat named Pshaw Ra, who possesses knowledge and technology far beyond anything the Barque Cats or their humans have ever seen. When fear of a virulent plague leads the government first to quarantine and then to kill all animals suspected of infection, Pshaw Ra with the help of Chester, Jubal, and the crew of the starship Ranzo activates a mousehole in space that carries the refugees to a place of safety: Pshaw Ra’s home planet of Mau, where godlike cats are worshiped by human slaves. But Pshaw Ra s actions are less noble than they appear. The scheming cat plans to mate the Barque Cats with his own feline stock, creating a hybrid race of superior cats a race destined to conquer the universe. Yet right from the start, his plans go awry. For one thing, there s a new queen on Mau: Pshaw Ra s daughter Nefure, a spoiled brat er, cat with a temper as short as her attention span. Pshaw Ra s other daughter, the rightful queen Renpet, is exiled, running for her life in the only direction available to her down into the vast Catacombs beneath the Mauan desert. Far from receiving the hero s welcome he expected, Pshaw Ra must use every bit of his considerable cleverness just to survive. Meanwhile, as usual, Chester and Jubal stumble right into the middle of things, in the process uncovering the lost secrets of the Mauan civilization. But that s not all they uncover. In the forgotten Catacombs deep below the Mauan capital, something has awakened. Something as old as the universe. Something that hungers to devour all light and life and that bears an undying hatred for cats.