To Ride Pegasus: (The Talents: Book 1): an astonishing and enthralling fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF n

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The first book in the Talent series. 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.

Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland. Visit the author's website at www.annemccaffrey.net