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Author's Official Website:

Anne McCaffrey's website


Other McCaffrey series pages:
Page 1: Pern (Dragonriders)
Page 2: Crystal Singer
Page 3: Brain Ships
Page 4: Talents (psychic, rowan, tower)
Page 5: Petaybee
Page 6: Freedom
Page 7: Acorna Page 8: Collections and other works


Fantasy/Science Fiction series:

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Robots series

Mary Janice Davidson's Undead series

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series
Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer series
Anne McCaffrey's Brain Ships series
Anne McCaffrey's Talents (psychic, rowan, tower) series
Anne McCaffrey's Petaybee series
Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series
Anne McCaffrey's Acorna series
George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones and more
Tanya Huff's Vicki Nelson (Blood Lines)
Tanya Huff's Confederation
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Spider Robinson's Callahan and Stardance series

Roger Zelazny's Amber Series



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The Dragonrider books by Anne McCaffrey series reading order and synopsis

Spider Robinson's Callahan's and Stardance series page reading order and synopsis; 160x480

Anne McCaffrey

(Psychic) Talents Series

How Mighty the Mind

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.


Summary:

To Ride Pegasus

Pegasus in Flight

The Rowan

Damia

Damia's Children

The Tower and the Hive

Lyon's Pride


Book cover, To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey

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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book cover, Pegasus in Flight, Anne McCaffrey

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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book cover, The Rowan, Anne McCaffrey

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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book cover, the Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

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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