Pegasus in Space

Publisher Marketing: For an overpopulated Earth, whose resources are strained to the breaking point, there is only one place to look for relief: straight up. With the successful completion of the Padrugoi Space Station, humanity has at last achieved its first large-scale permanent presence in space. Additional bases are feverishly being built on the Moon and on Mars, stepping-stones to the greatest adventure in all history: the colonization of alien worlds. Already long-range telescopes have identified a number of habitable planets orbiting the stars and distant galaxies. Now it's just a question of getting there. But there are those who, for selfish motives of their own, want Padrugoi and the other outposts to fail. People who will stop at nothing to maintain their power or to avenge its loss. Standing in their way are the Talented, men and women gifted with extraordinary mental powers that have made them as feared as they are respected and utterly indispensable to the colonization effort. There is Peter Reidinger, a teenage paraplegic who is the strongest telekinetic ever, his mind capable of teleporting objects and people thousands of miles in the blink of an eye. Yet all his power cannot repair his damaged spine or allow him to feel the gentle touch of a loved one... Rhyssa Owne, the powerful telepath and mother hen to Peter, and the rest of her "children" and a fierce, unrelenting fighter against the prejudice that would deny the Talented the right to lead happy and productive lives and Amariyah, an orphan girl who loves two things in the world above all others: gardening and Peter Reidinger. And woe to anyone who harms either one of them for the young girl's talent may prove to be the most amazing of all. Now, as sabotage and attempted murder strike the Station, it's up to the Talented to save the day. Only, who's going to save the Talented?" Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/1999 pg. 94 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2000 pg. 216 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/03/2000 pg. 67 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Library Journal 04/15/2000 pg. 128 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) School Library Journal 08/01/2000 pg. 213 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 55 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) School Library Journal 08/04/2000 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2000 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 623 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 471 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 677 (EAN 9780345434661, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  McCaffrey, Anne Anne Inez McCaffrey (April 1, 1926-November 21, 2011) was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. Early in McCaffrey's forty-six-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon" became one of the first science fiction books to appear on the New York Times" bestseller list. In 1999 she was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its twenty-second Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.