The admiral encourages Peter to consider a career in space, and he happily complies. This impresses Admiral Dirk Coetzer, whose life is saved by Peter's quick thinking. When a group of psychically gifted people sneak onto the corruptly run Padrugoi Space Station during its inauguration, it is young Peter who saves the day by using his burgeoning psychic abilities to vanquish the comically evil Space Station Construction Manager Ludmilla Barchenka as she attempts a coup. Rhyssa also takes in prepubescent Amariyah, an orphaned girl who has a talent for plants and healing. Peter lives with the grandmotherly Rhyssa, who protects him and nurtures the growth of his psychic talents. Paralyzed adolescent Peter Reidinger has learned how to move himself and some amazingly heavy objects psychokinetically through space. David Langford, .ukįrom 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. It all makes for an agreeable, lightweight read.

While most people think his talent needs careful conservation, Peter has already teleported supplies to the moon and has secret plans for Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of Jupiter. Our young hero's ambitions foreshadow later far-future books in the series (beginning with The Rowan) in which 'kinetics' hurl cargo across huge interstellar gulfs. Meanwhile, the orphan girl Amiriyah who's adopted into Peter's family has a mysterious, subtle talent of her own, one that we soon guess will change his life. Somehow her villains never quite convince, though, and their evil deeds are so rapidly annulled that the story rarely builds up much suspense. McCaffrey specializes in feel-good adventure SF, full of romance, warm friendships, and hearty meals. Further hassles ensue during his training for space haulage work: obstructive bureaucrats, crooked suppliers, murder attempts, and skillful sabotage. Pegasus in Space follows directly, with mayhem and mutiny, at the opening of a manned space station, which Peter and talented friends helped build. Book 2 introduced a crowd of new characters, notably the paralyzed boy Peter whose telekinetic talent can move not only his body without help from his ruined nervous system, but-with practice-even lift payloads into orbit.

It began with the near-future To Ride Pegasus, continuing a couple of generations later in Pegasus in Flight. “ ReviewAnne McCaffrey is best known for The Dragonriders of Pern, but her loose Talents series about superpsychics has been running almost as long.

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