A Tale of Barque Cats

By Anne McCaffrey

Catalyst and Catacombs extend McCaffrey's Talents setting through spacefaring cats whose bond with human crews becomes central to an interstellar crisis. Anne McCaffrey co-wrote both novels with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Read the two-book sequence in publication order; Catalyst establishes the crew and the cats before Catacombs follows the consequences of their discovery. These books form a distinct route within the broader Talents universe and can be read after the core Talent novels without replacing their own series order.