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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Fabric Type: 9780441007202
Fax Number: First Thus
Legal Disclaimer: 0441007201
Maximum Color Depth: Ace
Metal Type: Ace
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 336
Total External Bays Free: May 01, 2000
Total Firewire Ports: Ace
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.
Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?
McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero
Product Description:
The long-awaited final volume in the New York Times bestselling Rowan saga.
For generations, the descendents of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various Talents to help mankind--some are powerful telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.
Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much--especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered--that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.
The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success--if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.
"McCaffrey continues to hone and extend this universe, which has become more convincing with each novel." -Booklist
Average Rating: 
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What happened in this book? Did the author bothered to create and ending so horrible by chance? I'm a fan of the Rowan and the Pegasus Series, but Anne McCaffrey killed the story. The whole book did not make sense, the author totally shocked me, I do not recommend this book, cause it falls short. The stories before this book, were so rich and full of emotions,the characthers were well devolped and the story aimed at something. This book went on and on on tiresome reading and absurd story arc. ... Read More
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I hate to say it, but this book did very little for me. I've been an Anne McCaffrey fan for years, but this book is a disappointing ending to a great series. I was surprised to find out that the plot went absolutely nowhere. There was some intrigue and political maneuverings, which I've enjoyed in many of McCaffrey's novels (Sassinak, Decision at Doona, Crysal Singer series just to name a few) but I was surprised when many of these plot twists and turns ended up as dead ends.
Perhaps, ... Read More
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Anne McCaffrey is a fantastic author. I'm glad she wrote another book for this series. It's worth buying.
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The third time, we're told, is lucky, and in this book, the chronological eighth volume of McCaffrey's combined Pegasus/Rowan saga, the third generation of a family of powerful psychic talents finally proves to be lucky in its quest to contain the insectoid Hivers.
Thian and Rojer Lyon, the elder sons of Afra Lyon and Damia Raven, are on board the naval ship Washington, investigating failed Hiver colonies, when they discover, by an unexpected and fortuitous chance, that Hivers communicate ... Read More
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Who really wrote this book? I have to wonder if Todd McCaffrey didn't in fact write this.
That's the only explanation I can come up with for her having seemed to forget her characters so completely.
I just finished reading the whole Talent series back to back and the difference between those books and this is striking.
What happened? I have been wondering what the deal is with her allowing her son Todd to tinker with Pern, the results of which you can read about in other reviews here ... Read More
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