Anne McCaffrey: The Tower And Hive Series (5 Paperbacks)

Description: Book One - The Rowan (1991, First Printing, ISBN 9780441735761, 328 pages): The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth's Moon, Mars' Demos and Jupiter's Callisto. An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff finally gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family. Book Two - Damia (1993, Third Printing, ISBN 9780441135561, 341 pages): Damia is the daughter of Prime Talents, Rowan and Jeff Raven. Her own telepathic and telekinetic abilities manifested at an early age, unimaginable powers even greater than her parents; challenging to wield much less control. As willful as her mother ever was, Damia defies her family’s attempts to tame and train her. When she comes of age, Damia learns that a Prime of her capabilities and temperament has no time for love. Assigned to serve the farthest human colonized world from Earth, Damia leads a lonely existence until she telepathically connects with an alien presence in another galaxy - a potential threat not only to Damia, but to all Talents. Book Three - Damia's Children (1994, First Printing, ISBN 9780441000074, 325 pages): Humanity has found a new ally in their ongoing war against the Beetle Hive, a tenacious species called the Mrdini. In order to better understand each other, some humans and 'Dinis are raised together from childhood. One such family are the children of Damia and Afra Lyon, powerful psychic Talents of the Raven-Lyon clan who form the backbone of humanity's teleportation network. They inherited their mother's legendary powers of telepathy. But Damia's children will need more than psionic Talent to face the enemy's children - an alien race more insect than human. Book Four - Lyon's Pride (1995, First Printing, ISBN 9780441001415, 327 pages): The Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounter - destroying native populations in the process. They do not recognize any sentience but their own. They do not acknowledge any attempt to communicate with them. They do not understand that they leave countless numbers of dead in their wake. The Prime Talents of the Raven-Lyon clan - telepaths, teleporters, and telekinetics - have protected the Alliance from the Hive breeding contagion for years. Now a fleet orbits the alien homeworld to prevent them from leaving, and a Hive queen and her eggs are in captivity and quarantined. And unless the Raven-Lyons break the language barrier between Human and Hive, the Alliance may have no choice but to eliminate their entire race. Book Five - The Tower and The Hive- (2000, First Printing, ISBN 9780441007202, 315 pages): For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity. As human civilization reached out to colonize the stars, the family led Earth to ally itself with the peaceful alien Mrdini. Together, the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, who once decimated entire worlds. But there are factions on Earth who resent the power the family has accumulated. Now, with their goals of peace and prosperity so close at hand, The Rowan’s descendants face the looming destruction of all they have suffered to achieve.

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