Still, fans of the series will plunge right in.' Kirkus Reviews concluded its review: 'Cuddly family/romance/alien-contact saga with useful ideas but far too many characters distinguishable only by their silly names. See also the novels To Ride Pegasus, Pegasus in Flight and Pegasus in Space which deal with the early development of the Talents. The book was published (U.S.) on May 1, 1999, by Ace/Berkley.īeginning with The Rowan, the series follows the lives and careers of the Gwyn-Raven-Lyon dynasty of Talents in the distant future:ġ) The Rowan 2) Damia 3) Damia's Children 4) Lyon's Pride 5) The Tower and the Hive Human Talents allied with the Mrdini, an alien race who have been under attack by the insectoid Hive species for 200 years, discover a solution to curtail Hivers' explosive population expansions without having to wipe out the species as a whole - a solution which both Alliance species object to.Īt the same time a similar solution is discovered to help the Mrdini curtail their own birthrate, now that they no longer have to sacrifice huge numbers of soldiers in battle to save their worlds from Hiver attacks. (Aug.The Tower and the Hive is a 1999 science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey, the concluding volume of a five-book series also referred to as 'The Tower and Hive' series. 100,000 first printing $100,000 ad/promo Science Fiction Book Club main selection. In this sensitive portrayal (expanded from the author's first published story, ``Lady in the Tower,'' which appeared in 1959 in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ), McCaffrey draws a warm and vivid picture of a struggling frontier society. The two team up to fight the aliens and grow to love each other. The Rowan can't help him because of her phobia, but the new Prime, who doesn't share her disability, teaches her how to transport herself. Then she touches minds with an unknown Prime from recently colonized Deneb VIII who seeks help opposing an invasion of extraterrestrials. Orphaned as a baby and discovered to be a potential Prime, most powerful of the psis, the Rowan is raised by psychologists, trained by them and put in charge of the FT&T Tower on Callisto where she lives a lonely life, psychologically impeded, as are other Primes, from moving around the human universe. Through the Nine-Star League, people and goods are instantaneously transported by the telepaths and telekinetics of Federal Telepath & Transport. McCaffrey leaves behind the Dragonriders of Pern to write this charming tale of a powerful psi on whom depends the commerce of human-settled space.

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