- Mass Market Paperback: 293 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey Books; 1st Mass Market Ed edition (Nov 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345368975
- ISBN-13: 978-0345368973
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 1.5 x 17.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,726,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The second volume of the Talents of Earth
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As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. 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. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. 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. 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...
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. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. 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. 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...
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Tirla took a quick look from the alley into the Main Concourse of Residential Linear G, then pulled back instantly, flattening her thin twelve-year-old body against the plas-slab wall. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I started with Damia and had to go backwards. I found that I didn't need to worry about not reading the series in sequence, which is always great. Good storyline, which was stronger than "To ride Pegesus". For me, it lacks some depth of character, but nevertheless, a jolly good read.
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Format:Paperback
If you liked 'To ride Pegasus' or the Talent series, you will love this book. The plot is better, the action is better and the characters are exelent described. Anne McCaffrey's unique blend of the personal elements and the SF/Fantasy which she does so well, makes this book a very good read.
Format:Paperback
Well written book which drags you in from the first few sentences. Reads well alone but is best enjoyed as part of the "Talent" series. Brilliant
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For anyone who wants to know how the Talents got started
A briliant book telling how the Talents that we love in the Rowan came into being, and the strugles of Old Earth that they had to resolve. Read more
Published on 30 April 2001 by Symon Kielb
One great book
Personally, I preferred this book to the first in the series :'To ride Pegasus'. Anne McCaffery brings forth interesting charicters and places them in an equally interesting... Read more
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