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- Publisher: Brilliance Audio; MP3 Una edition (25 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1423330293
- ISBN-13: 978-1423330295
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,243,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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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 ROWAN — A NEW CONCEPT, A NEW LEGEND, FROM THE CREATOR OF THE DRAGONS OF PERN.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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"The Rowan" is a continuation of the series "The Talents of Earth". Peter Reiddinger's dream of going to space has been realized and the talented are vital in this venture. Talented with strong telekinetic and telepathic abilities are few and valued. They are primes in FT&T's transportation system.
The Rowan is the girl who was found after a mudslide on Altair. She lost her whole family and was made ward of the state. Her talent was one of prime quality and she was educated in her responsibilities as such. This book is about her road to adulthood and her search for love.
In many ways this was a good book. I enjoyed reading it and would have no problem recommending it to others. Having said that something was missing for me in this book. "The Talents of Earth" was a much more enjoyable series for me. This is not McCaffrey at her best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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THE ROWAN is the first book in the wonderful TOWER AND HIVE series (the other titles being; DAMIA, DAMIA'S CHILDREN, LYON'S PRIDE, THE TOWER & THE HIVE) and is easily the best.
We are now in the universe envisaged by Henry Darrow and the first Peter Reidinger (see PEGASUS series), a world where mankind has reached beyond the stars; where inter-planetary transport and communication is achievable predominantly through the powers of the scarce and extremely valuable PRIMES, grade 1 strength telepaths/telekenetics.
Angharad Gwyn from the planet Altair is only 3 years old when her entire family, with the rest of their mining community, are killed in a mudslide. The only survivor is trapped in a hopper; cold, hungry and wanting her .....MOMMEEEEEE. Everyone planetwide even slightly talented hears her telepathic cries and the search for the child begins. This is aided by a powerful clairvoyant who predicts a long lonely road for THE ROWAN, the new name adopted by the precious child Prime.
The Rowan's life is spent training to take a Prime position on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. Her passage to her new station is terrifying; as like all Primes The Rowan is intensely agorophobic and unable to launch herself through space. She regards this 'Prime Trait' bitterly, understandably so considering she's capable of launching huge cargoes through the known universe and receiving telepathic messages from lightyears away.
As The Rowan resigns herself to a solitary life with no mate she receives a strong telepathic message from the distant planet of Deneb.... and it's male. Overcoming life long fears, she unites with Jeff to aid in the protection of his planet. It is here that she finally meets the destiny predicted when she was 3 years old....
Ms McCaffrey has created a wonderful universe, with solid believable characters from diverse worlds and cultures. This book is so great that I recommend you don't stop here - I strongly urge you to get the other 4 books!!!!!!
Format:Paperback
"The Rowan" is a continuation of the series "The Talents of Earth". Peter Reiddinger's dream of going to space has been realized and the talented are vital in this venture. Talented with strong telekinetic and telepathic abilities are few and valued. They are primes in FT&T's transportation system.
The Rowan is the girl who was found after a mudslide on Altair. She lost her whole family and was made ward of the state. Her talent was one of prime quality and she was educated in her responsibilities as such. This book is about her road to adulthood and her search for love.
In many ways this was a good book. I enjoyed reading it and would have no problem recommending it to others. Having said that something was missing for me in this book. "The Talents of Earth" was a much more enjoyable series for me. This is not McCaffrey at her best.
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Superb, 'The lady in the tower' right from the start.
The Rowan is a supreme example Anne M. at her best, as with most of her books I got to know the character very well and wanted to know more. Read more
Published on 5 May 2000 by John Brown
Excellent - well worth the read!
The Rowan - starting with the sole survivor of a mud slide at The Rowan Mining Company, the girl child is discovered by Talents - people with amazing telepathic and telekinetic... Read more
Published on 4 May 2000
It is one of my favourite books
The Rowan is about a little girl who survives a mudslide that killed everyone else. She has strong telepathic links & other telekinetic abilities which are very useful to her... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2000 by jessica.stone@virgin.net
Tantalisingly terrific!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book has adventure, sci-fi, telepathic talents and romance. The Rowan is a young child ophaned by a mud slide which wiped out her whole colony. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 1999
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