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The Tower and the Hive

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Corgi
Release Date	: 2009-11-03
ISBN 10	: 0552160504
Pages	: 400 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book The Tower and the Hive written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the fifth book in the Tower and the Hive series, the children of Damia and Afra Lyon take up new and demanding responsibilities - trying to discover the whereabouts of all the Hiver-occupied worlds. For the Hivers are still a terrible threat and can bring total annihilation to both humans and their furry allies the Mrdini unless the remaining Hiver Queens can be prevented from further colonization. And a startling additional problem has arisen with the Mrdini. No longer dying as drastically as they once had in their ceaseless struggle against the Hivers, they face a serious population explosion and need the help of the Medical Prime Zara Lyon.

The Rowan

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152117
Pages	: 322 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book The Rowan written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: alien nations, psychic powers, telepathy and planetary systems. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' -- THE TIMES 'Marvellous from the beginning to the end, believable, spellbinding, mind-bending, truly magnificent' -- ***** Reader review 'Thrilling and exciting' -- ***** Reader review 'Fabulous from beginning to end' -- ***** Reader review 'Simply awesome' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************** The Talents were the elite of the Nine Star League. Their gifts were many and varied, ranging from the gently telepathic, to the rare and extremely valued Primes. On the Primes rested the entire economic wealth and communications systems of the civilised worlds. But Primes were scarce - only very rarely was a new one born. And now, on the planet Altair, in a small mining colony on the western mountain range, a new Prime existed, a three-year-old girl - trapped in a giant mud slide that had wiped out the rest of the Rowan mining community. Every Altarian who was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help, but no one knew where she was buried. Every resource on the planet was centred into finding 'The Rowan' - the new Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful, more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star league...

The Tower And The Hive

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152148
Pages	: 404 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book The Tower And The Hive written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: alien nations, psychic powers, telepathy and planetary systems. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'Keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way to the end' -- ***** Reader review 'Truly amazing' -- ***** Reader review 'Simply awesome' -- ***** Reader review 'A great story from a great storyteller' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************** The children of Damia and Afra Lyon are taking up new and demanding responsibilities - trying to discover the whereabouts of all the Hiver-occupied worlds... For the Hivers are still a terrible threat and can bring total annihilation to both humans and their furry allies, the Mrdini, unless the remaining Hiver Queens can be prevented from further colonization. And a startling additional problem has arisen with the Mrdini. No longer dying as drastically as they once had in their ceaseless struggle against the Hivers, they face a serious population explosion and need the help of the Medical Prime Zara Lyon... The gripping conclusion to an epic series.

Lyon's Pride

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152353
Pages	: 356 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (523 users)

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Download or read book Lyon's Pride written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: alien nations, psychic powers, telepathy and planetary systems. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'A GREAT read' -- ***** Reader review 'Anne McCaffrey at her best' -- ***** Reader review 'Just brilliant' -- ***** Reader review 'I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************** The survival technique of the Hivers was terrifying -- and brilliant. Their huge Sphere ships surged out into space. When an appropriate planet was found, the Hivers destroyed any and every variety of indigenous life, the queens propagated, and when the new world was full, more ships were sent out. The colonization was repeated until no planet, no species, least of all Man and Mrdini, was safe. The furry and courageous Mrdini had fought the Hivers for centuries. Now Mrdini and Man combined to form the Alliance -- and Humankind had their own weapons to offer -- the power and might of the Talents who could not only communicate silently with each other, but could project cargoes, ships and themselves across the deeps of space. The four children of Damia -- Laria, Thian, Rojer and Zara -- were Primes amongst the Talents, and all their skills were desperately needed, for the Hivers' terrible Sphere ships were still thrusting through space, unfathomable, impenetrable, and carrying death in their labyrinthine depths.

Sequels

Author	: Janet Husband
Publisher	: American Library Association
Release Date	: 2009
ISBN 10	: 9780838909676
Pages	: 782 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (96 users)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Damia

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152124
Pages	: 386 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book Damia written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: alien nations, psychic powers, telepathy and planetary systems. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'A story that keeps you involved, and you can read it again and again!' -- ***** Reader review 'I had trouble putting the book down' -- ***** Reader review 'Beautifully written and completely unputdownable!' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************************************************************** Of all the Rowan's children, Damia is the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest, and the one who has inherited the greatest Talent. It is obvious from childhood that she is going to be a Prime, with all the honours, burdens and strains of that elite class. Her one friend is Afra -- older, wiser, Talented in his own way, but 'belonging' almost exclusively to the Rowan and the workings of Callisto Station. As Damia grows up, her Talent becomes almost too strong to control, and the solution is separation -- from her parents, from Callisto, from her beloved Afra. Sent to the distant planet of Deneb, to her strange and gifted grandmother, Damia begins the training necessary to turn her into a Prime of extraordinary gifts -- a Prime who can contact the minds of approaching aliens through space, some of whom threatening to totally destroy the worlds of the Nine Star League.

The White Dragon

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448127955
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book The White Dragon written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the Ditmar International Science Fiction Award** **Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel** Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern and discover not only its flora, fauna, population and cultural hierarchy, but the history of an entire civilization. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'One of McCaffrey's best!'-- ***** Reader review 'You cannot fail to be totally immersed in this fantastic story, thrilling to the extreme.' -- ***** Reader review 'If you have never tried the series, do. You won't regret it.' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************* A BOND IS FORMED THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN... Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth possessed remarkable qualities. Not only could he communicate with the iridescent, fluttering fire lizards, but he could fly. Back in time to any WHEN with unfailing accuracy. Nearly everyone else on Pern thought Ruth was a runt who would never amount to anything, but Jaxom knew his dragon was special. In secret they trained to fight against the burning threads from the Red Planet, to fly Back in time as well as Between, and finally their close and special union was to result in the most startling and breathtaking discovery of all... THE WHITE DRAGON is one of the most unforgettable episodes in Anne McCaffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern... The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragondrums.

Dragonflight

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152384
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (523 users)

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Download or read book Dragonflight written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, introduce you to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this. "Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants" - THE TIMES "Read Dragonflight and you're confronted with McCaffrey the storyteller in her prime..." - SFX "Wonderful descriptive writing, the dragons are totally believable and their riders are very human." -- ***** Reader review "Pure genius." -- ***** Reader review "One of the all time classics of science fiction." -- ***** Reader review "Well written, extraordinary world building whose influence can be seen even today." ***** Reader review ******************************************************** HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD? To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a Queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread and the blood-red star, but there are very few of them left these days. Only the gigantic, golden Queen can breed new dragons. And the Queen is fading . . . dying . . . Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . . The Dragonriders of Pern series continues in Dragonquest.

Words on Cassette 2002

Author	: R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher	: R. R. Bowker
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 0835245160
Pages	: 2466 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Words on Cassette 2002 written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2002 with total page 2466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lyon's Pride

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Putnam Adult
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 0399139079
Pages	: 286 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (79 users)

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Download or read book Lyon's Pride written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowan, her daughter and son-in-law, Damia and Afra, and their children must use their extraordinary telepathic abilities to battle the alien Hivers in outer space.

The Rowan

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Ace
Release Date	: 1991-09-01
ISBN 10	: 0441735762
Pages	: 338 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (62 users)

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Download or read book The Rowan written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Ace. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rowan was destined to become the greatest Prime Talent in human history, facing a lonely existence of servitude. Until she receives a telepathic plea from across the stars from a Prime named Jeff Raven-and falls in love with him.

Pegasus In Flight

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152094
Pages	: 420 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book Pegasus In Flight written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Worlds where amazing gifts can lead to power and persecution. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'One of those can't put it down books' -- ***** Reader review 'Anne McCaffrey does it again' -- ***** Reader review 'So exciting' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely fantastic!' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************** Earth was at bursting point, in spite of the birth restrictions of only one child to each couple. Extra children existed in a sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery. The only hope was the space platform -- the jumping-off point for the colonization of other worlds. But more Talents were needed to build and operate those platforms. Rhyssa Owen was the one responsible, both for finding Talents and training them. 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. And in the seamy underworld of near-criminal children was another brilliant mind in danger from a ruthless group of child kidnappers. Rhyssa knew she had to find the two children and train them for the survival of earth.

The Ship Who Sang

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152193
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book The Ship Who Sang written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brain was perfect, the tiny, crippled body useless. So technology rescued the brain and put it in an environment that conditioned it to live in a different kind of body - a spaceship. Here the human mind, more subtle, infinitely more complex than any computer ever devised, could be linked to the massive and delicate strengths, the total recall, and the incredible speeds of space. But the brain behind the ship was entirely feminine - a complex, loving, strong, weak, gentle savage - a personality, all-woman, called Helva...

The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448127993
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams, you will love this. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' -- THE TIMES 'Mesmerising and totally unputdownable' -- ***** Reader review 'Staggeringly good' -- ***** Reader review 'Another story of Pern I simply couldn't put down' -- ***** Reader review 'Just brilliant!!!' -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************************************** Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern -- from the very first space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space. Here is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold -- a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern. And here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr...

Freedom's Landing

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152155
Pages	: 386 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book Freedom's Landing written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts. Worlds where humans are the slaves of aliens and love can flourish in the most unlikely of places... Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'My go to comfort book' -- ***** Reader review 'Anne McCaffrey at her best' -- ***** Reader review 'Unputdownable' -- ***** Reader review 'I love this series. Fantastic characters and a great story line' -- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************************************************** When the Catteni ships descended on earth it was one of the most terrifying experiences humankind had ever known. Kris Bjornsen, along with thousands of others, found herself herded by forcewhips into the hold of giant spaceships to be transported to the slave compounds of an alien planet. And even then it wasn't over. For, after a partially successful escape attempt, Kris was once more shipped across space - to an apparently empty and untamed planet. The Catteni just dumped an assorted load of humans and aliens on the strange world and left them to see what would happen. Brilliantly the refugees began to organize themselves into a pattern of survival. The planet was eerie and not as empty as it seemed. For someone - something - had built giant storage barns: the planet was being used as a huge larder - for an entity they could not comprehend. As Kris and her patrol set out to explore the enigmatic world she had yet another problem to contend with - the presence of Zainal, the high-ranking patrician Catteni who had been abandoned with the rest of them. Zainal was strong, brilliant, and...kind, and Kris was puzzled by his presence, his personality, and above all by the tenuous tie she felt towards him...

Dragonsdawn

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448127979
Pages	: 480 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (279 users)

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Download or read book Dragonsdawn written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern and discover not only its flora, fauna, population and cultural hierarchy, but the history of an entire civilization. If you like David Eddings, David Gemmell and Douglas Adams, you will love this. **Runner Up for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel** **Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Novel** 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES Readers love it: ***** - 'The tale of intrepid explorers arriving at their destination, draws the reader in, you feel the joy, the pain and the determination to win through, to create a new home.' ***** - 'An amazing, totally engrossing book!' ***** - 'What impressed me particularly was the way science fiction and fantasy were mixed, elegantly and coherently into one novel.' ******************************************************************** THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, AND HOW IT ALL BEGAN... In the beginning, before Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ships gliding through space with nearly six thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty task of beginning a new world on a strange planet. It was a jewel of a planet, with rivers and seas and mountains, and breathable air and growing things. Then came the terror. The strange, unidentifiable circles in the grass suddenly revealed a meaning, and every living thing was at risk. Many died - a horrible and consuming death. All resources, every man, woman and child had to fight the terrible nightmare of Thread. But a new creature was about to save the planet. From the delicate fire lizards a new life was born - a new symbiosis between man and beast...

To Ride Pegasus

Author	: Anne McCaffrey
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2012-07-31
ISBN 10	: 9781448152087
Pages	: 286 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book To Ride Pegasus written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Worlds where amazing gifts can lead to power and persecution...Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams. 'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES 'Totally gripped me' -- ***** Reader review 'There is only one word for this - AMAZING!' -- ***** Reader review 'If you haven't read it, what are you waiting for???' -- ***** Reader review 'Indescribably good' -- ***** Reader review 'Anne McCaffrey is, to my mind, one of the best Science Fiction writers I've ever read' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************* They are people whose gifts are unique. For years - centuries - they have not properly understood just what they can do with their minds. Some have become astrologers, clairvoyants, or healers, but their Talents are largely undeveloped and untrained. Henry Darrow was the first to explore the huge wealth of psychic gifts hidden amongst mankind, and it was he who formed the first Parapsychic Centre where Talents can train and be used to revolutionise the world. But their powers set them apart, make them feared, then threatened by the un-Talented. And when dangerous freak 'wild' Talents begin to wreak havoc in the outside world, it takes all their combined Talented efforts to save themselves.