Pegasus In Space (The Talent Series) - Softcover

McCaffrey, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552146307 ISBN 13: 9780552146302

Verlag: Corgi, 2000

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519pages. poche. Broché. Anne McCaffrey is best known for The Dragonriders of Pern , but her loose Talents series about superpsychics has been running almost as long. It began with the near-future To Ride Pegasus , continuing a couple of generations later in Pegasus in Flight. 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. Pegasus in Space follows directly, with mayhem and mutiny, at the opening of a manned space station, which Peter and talented friends helped build. Further hassles ensue during his training for space haulage work: obstructive bureaucrats, crooked suppliers, murder attempts, and skillful sabotage. McCaffrey specializes in feel-good adventure SF, full of romance, warm friendships, and hearty meals. Somehow her villains never quite convince, though, and their evil deeds are so rapidly annulled that the story rarely builds up much suspense. 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. 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. 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. It all makes for an agreeable, lightweight read. -David Langford, Amazon. co. uk

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"Few are better at mixing elements of high fantasy and hard science fiction." --The New York Times Book Review

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Peter Reidinger was the most brilliant and powerful telepath and telekinetic yet discovered on earth. He was also barely fifteen years old and a paraplegic who 'moved' his body through kinesis. When the telepaths of earth suspected a plot to take over Padrugoi, the newly manned space station, they realised they needed his unique gifts to foil the insane plans of Barchenka, the space construction manager, but even they didn't realise how strong were his abilities to 'read' the minds of those about him and move heavy loads over vast distances.

As his career progressed, so his talents increased beyond the dreams of those trying to reach out into space. Peter Reidinger was going to be the salvation of man's exploration of the stars.

And even as he became the most important man on earth, so his friendship with the tiny orphan girl found in the floods of Bangladesh grew and flourished. For Amariyah too had psychic gifts which no-one, at first, could define. But these 'special' people were constantly at risk - hated and feared by the avaricious, the evil and the ignorant, whose constant ambition was to destroy Peter Reidinger and those like him.

The story of the Talents of Earth was begun in To Ride Pegasus and Pegasus in Flight, and the Talent legend is taken forward in time in Anne McCaffrey's remarkable Tower and the Hive sequence.

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• Verlag: Corgi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0552146307
• ISBN 13: 9780552146302
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528