Rhyssa knew she had to find the two children and train them for the survival of earth. Eighteen years ago, Anne McCaffrey first told the story of the remarkable race of people known as the Talented, in her now-legendary novel TO RIDE PEGASUS. And in the seamy underworld of near-criminal children was another brilliant mind in danger from a ruthless group of child kidnappers. And when she felt the first encroachment of a mind reaching out to her, she knew it was exceptional - a fourteen-year-old boy with incredibly powerful kinetic ability. Rhyssa Owen was the one responsible, both for finding Talents and training them. But more Talents were needed to build and operate those platforms. The only hope was the space platform - the jumping-off point for the colonization of other worlds.

Extra children existed in a sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery. 'Absolutely fantastic!' - ***** Reader reviewĮarth was at bursting point, in spite of the birth restrictions of only one child to each couple. 'Anne McCaffrey does it again' - ***** Reader review 'One of those can't put it down books' - ***** Reader review 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. Worlds where amazing gifts can lead to power and persecution. Worlds where amazing gifts can lead to power and persecution. Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: telepathy and tele kinetics. And when two Talented children were discovered to have some very unusual - and unexpected - abilities, she realized that she would have to reassess the potential of all Talentkind.From the Paperback edition.Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: telepathy and tele kinetics.

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. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. 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.

As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents.

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