A connected future history in which people with psychic and telekinetic abilities become central to human society and its expansion into space.
These connected stories and novels introduce people whose psychic abilities reshape life on Earth and eventually make interstellar travel possible. The sequence begins with To Ride Pegasus, a collection of linked stories, and continues with Pegasus in Flight and Pegasus in Space. Read the three volumes in publication order to follow the development of the Talents and the institutions built around them. The later Tower and Hive sequence continues this shared future with a different family at its centre.
View Series →The Tower and Hive novels follow the Rowan, her descendants and other powerful Talents as human civilisation encounters the Mrdini and the threat of the Hivers. Start with The Rowan, then read Damia, Damia's Children, Lyon's Pride and The Tower and the Hive in publication order. The related Talent/Pegasus books explore earlier developments in this society; they provide extra context but are not a prerequisite for beginning this five-book family sequence.
View Series →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.
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