![]() ![]() ![]() McCaffrey's world of the Talented is as vivid as that of Pern and its dragons. From Publishers WeeklyThe next in McCaffrey's popular Saga of the Talents series (Pegasus in Flight, To Ride Pegasus), this novel follows the adventures of a group of psychically gifted scientists who nobly improve Earth's future by making space exploration and colonization possible. Meanwhile, kidnappers prey on children for pederastic pursuits and for spare parts. Meanwhile two youngsters are found to be unusually Talented: Peter Reidinger overcomes paralysis to develop the first gestalt with electrical generators (this becomes the basis for future space travel), while Tirlap, an illegal child from the vertical slums, facilitates communication among a wide variety of cultures. Telepath Rhyssa Owen, a top official of the Center for Parapsychic Talents, must contend with the station's construction manager, who treats Talents brutally and otherwise discourages them from working for her. Essential to the construction of a space station being built to serve as springboard to the stars are the services of the Talents-particularly the telekinetics, who can move objects by mental power. ![]() Even with officially mandated birth control, the world teems with too many people. Following the events in To Ride, Pegasus and set a generation or so before The Rowan, this era finds mankind not yet having settled planets outside the solar system. McCaffrey continues to develop her future world in which psionic Talents, once feared and despised, are by now necessary to the comfort and conduct of society. ![]()
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