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Loading... To Ride Pegasus (Talents, Bk. 1) (original 1973; edition 1973)by Anne McCaffrey, Gene Szafran (Illustrator)
Work InformationTo Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey (1973)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I think I figured out what doesn't work for me from McCaffrey: her characters are flat as pancakes. They don't grow, the plot (if there is any) drives their actions/words rather than the other way around, they don't make sense. It is baffling that this book's blurb describes 5 important-sounding women in detail, promising their perspectives on how they shape the world of the Talents, but the whole story is told from the POV of 2 men. *throws hands up* no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesPegasus Trilogy (1) Le vol de Pégase (tome 1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesPocket (5439)
"McCaffrey's world of the Talented is as vivid as that of Pern and its dragons."--Publishers Weekly When a freak accident furnishes solid scientific proof of paranormal mental abilities, the world reacts with suspicion and fear. How can ordinary people coexist with a minority able to read minds, heal with a touch, peer into the future, or move objects with a thought? How can anyone with such power be trusted not to abuse it? Harsh repression seems the only answer Gifted with precognitive talent, Henry Darrow has other ideas, foreseeing a future in which the Talents are accepted for what they are and not what they can offer their fellow humans. But the road to that future will not be easy. Darrow and the powerful telepath Daffyd op Owen must win the public's trust while overcoming the threat of rogue Talents like Solange Boshe, a young girl so consumed with hatred that her thoughts can kill, and the singer known as Amalda, whose telepathic prowess can unite a thousand strangers in joyful harmony--or mold them into a bloodthirsty mob. . . . No library descriptions found. |
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McCaffrey always easy to read.
These were basically short stories and tended to end a little too abruptly for me.
I liked the politics and necessary manoeuvring but then they tended to end to swiftly. ( )