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Like her friend Isaac Asimov, McCaffrey managed to link together two apparently disparate series, the psychics in Earth's Jerhattan, and the Lady in the Tower (the Rowan).

She begins with establishing that psychic abilities are true, and demonstrable, and objectively provable, and from there postulates the growth of psychic commerce and social and technological ramifications.

She begins with establishing that psychic abilities are true, and demonstrable, and objectively provable, and from there postulates the growth of psychic commerce and social and technological ramifications.

The early Pegasus titles are examples of science fiction in its truest form -- the examination of people and society affected by a technological change. That technology can be 'soft' (like a political change) or 'hard' (like a development in science). Here the technology is the development and exploitation of a human skill, and the way in which it affects people, as individuals, as a society and as a 'race'.

Set in the near-future in North America where people live in city-sized hives, overpopulated, under-skilled, and resource-hungry, McCaffrey looks not only at the impact of psychic practitioners in everyday work life, but also at a possible future.

The Rowan, the lady in the tower, also began as a short story and developed into a book. Set further in the future, the Rowan is a Prime psychic, capable of using her mind to propel spaceships between the stars with the help of lesser 'talents' in a gestalt between humans and machinery.

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Summary:

To Ride Pegasus

Pegasus in Flight

The Rowan

Damia

Damia's Children

The Tower and the Hive

Lyon's Pride

To Ride Pegasus, Anne McCaffrey To Ride Pegasus McCaffrey begins this series with the discovery by a nurse of a method for monitoring psychic activity in the brain. This collection of short stories covers the first generations of psychics as they battle envy and politics to establish themselves as a professional organisation.
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Pegasus in Flight, Anne McCaffrey Pegasus in Flight Rhyssa Owen, Director for Parapsychic Talents discovers a fourteen-year-old boy escaping the confines of his ruined body by tapping into the hospital power system to enhance his own psychic powers. Taken from the hospital he befriends the rescued feral Tirla and the pair defeat child-slavers and help to set Terrans on the path to colonising the stars.
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The Rowan, Anne McCaffrey The Rowan A novelization based on McCaffrey's short story The Lady in the Tower. This is an example of McCaffrey reinventing her own history and taking away from her female characters some of their power.
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Damia, Anne McCaffrey Damia As willful as her mother, The Rowan, ever was, and possessing unimaginable powers, Damia defies her family's attempts to tame and train her--only to bond with Afra Lyon, a Talent who serves The Rowan, and who becomes the object of her affection. (source: Amazon.com)
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Damia's Children, Anne McCaffrey Damia's Children They inherited their mother's legendary powers of telepathy. But Damia's children will need more than psionic Talent to face the enemy's children--an alien race more insect than human...(source: Amazon.com)
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The Tower and the Hive, Anne McCaffrey The Tower and the Hive For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity. As human civilization reached out to colonize the stars, the family led Earth to ally itself with the peaceful alien Mrdini. Together, the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, who once devastated entire worlds.
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Lyon's Pride, Anne McCaffrey Lyon's Pride The Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounter--destroying native populations in the process. They do not recognize any sentience but their own. They do not acknowledge any attempt to communicate with them. They do not understand they leave countless numbers of dead in their wake. (source: Amazon.com)
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