To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Anne McCaffrey has a series I have read and reviewed called The Tower and the Hive, and in this universe people with psychic talents are responsible for providing telepathic communication and shipping services through teleportation. It is an interesting series which I enjoyed, but it leaves open the question of how we get from here-and-now to the universe she created. It is clear that it is supposed to be the same universe in some way, and in her Pegasus books she creates that link.

To Ride Pegasus is book #1 of the prequel series, and begins with someone who is very successful as an astrologer because he is in fact someone with precognition talent. He founds a research center and looks for others to join him. Then a talented telepath becomes his successor, and guides the organization into an accepted role in society. In McCaffrey’s telling, it would seem that all/most people have some kind of psychic ability, only in most people it is weak or suppressed. There is some notion that genetics is involved, and that selected breeding might intensify the abilities people have.

This book is not a novel so much as 4 linked novellas that tell the story.



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