To Ride Pegasus (The Talent, #1)

Posted on 20 November 2017 by Anne McCaffrey

They were four extraordinary women who read minds, healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future and became pariahs in their own land A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of the everyday human raceto enter their own New Download eBook To Ride Pegasus (The Talent, #1) by Anne McCaffrey – kino-fada.fr Anne McCaffrey s books are like a comfort food for me I ve read most of her books and have reread so many of them about a zillion times My copy of To Ride Pegasus is pretty beat up as it s one of my go to reads I was having a crummy night and needed something that I knew would make me feel be... To Ride Pegasus was an amazing story, full of science fiction and fantasy elements and really incredible.I just finished reading To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, for about the 20th time It never gets old to me, and I know this won t be the last time I read it Yes, I m one of those people who can read a book or watch a movie over, and over, and over Part of the reason is that if it s a great book I tend to read it way too fast and I miss things, so I read it again later to pick up all the things I missed This time through Pegasus I tried to focus on exactly why I love it so much It might be I just finished reading To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, for about the 20th time It never gets old to me, and I know this won t be the last time I read it Yes, I m one of those people who can read a book or watch a movie over, and over, and over Part of the reason is that if it s a great book I tend to read it way too fast and I miss things, so I read it again later to pick up all the things I missed This time through Pegasus I tried to focus on exactly why I love it so much It might be the writing The characters, even the minor ones, are so three dimensional that I feel like I know them They are my neighbors and my friends The world she sketches is vibrant and to me a logical extension of our own It s us, on steroids Or psychic Talent, as it were Mind you, when she wrote it 1997 seemed like far enough into the future to make all the futuristic things...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Ohwow What can I say This is vintage AMC batshit Not the new school oddness of her turning Pern over to her son without any regard for the fact that he is a crap writer, but the old school stuff Oh yeah.It was first published in 1974, which would explain the horrendous portrayal of women if it wasn t science fiction and set in 1997 and beyond Oh yeah 1997 A terrible version of 1997 with half the technology and double the misogyny.In the world of TRP, all the people in Charge of Things Ohwow What can I say This is vintage AMC batshit Not the new school oddness of her turning Pern over to her son without any regard for the fact that he is a crap writer, but the old school stuff Oh yeah.It was first published in 1974, which would explain the horrendous portrayal of women if it wasn t science fiction and set in 1997 and beyond Oh yeah 1997 A terrible version of 1997 with half the technology and double the misogyny.In the world of TRP, all the people in Charge of Things are male And they re in charge of the minds of all the women One woman gets angry because no one will help her deal with her telempathic ability, so the Man in Charge shoots her with a tranquillizer gun and then discusses how best to manipulate her with her boyfriend A woman whose psychic powers have...I have read most if not all of Anne MaCaffrey s Pern series and a few of her short stories so I thought I d start expanding into her other series I gather that this series might somehow link into the Tower and Hive series also on my to read list though this is a complete guess as my brain just decided to link a couple of things together.I found this book a little strange to begin with, but then as the story warmed up I really started to enjoy it McCaffrey basically uses the story to explore I have read most if not all of An...Henry Darrow is a surprisingly accurate astrologer He predicted the car accident that would give him a serious head injury and would put him in the one hospital with an ultra sensitive electroencephalograph, otherwise known as a Goosegg After his surgery he woke to a nurse watching him He had a precognitive episode ...Interesting book, but it felt like a bit of a slog The fact it was originally separate short stories showed through, and after each segment I found myself wanting to put it down and read something else for a bit.There was an interesting current of mind control throughout the book, seemingly without thought from any of the main characters At one point a woman is hypnotised into what appears to be a totall...This isof a 3.5 star rating but I rounded up This is a series of connected short stories about the parapsychics and a future society I noticed that McCaffrey had rioting be a problem because of unemployment problems, which is actually a future I have seen sociologists predict as robots and AI do take overandhuman jobs That was very astute of her To get back to the stories, I really enjoyed them The characters are interesting and I love Sally Iselin, a minor character but s This isof a 3.5 star rating but I rounded up This is a series of connected short stories about the parapsychics and a future society I noticed that McCaffrey had rioting be a problem because of unemployment pro...The first story is the only one I can actually recommend the tale of creating the institute to protect and develop psychic powers, the difficulty of finding a suitably secluded space in crowded city.But the rest oof What a painful instance of internalized gender politics, so many instances of rational male characters deciding what s best for the dangerous emotional women It just goes to show how women can be complicit in perpetuating this kind of stuff.A few choice quotes If only she coul The first story is the only one I can actual...I don t know aboutrecent editions of To Ride Pegasus, but the cover of the 1973 mass market paperback is incredibly misleading The cover makes it look like some cheesy fantasy novel while the back makes it sound like a mail order bride romance or something In actuality, To Ride Pegasus is a surprisingly good collection of speculative short stories about the difficulties that would arise in legitimizing psychic powers after they have been proven scientifically, and the social political pr I don t know aboutrecent editions of To Ride Pegasus, but the cover of the 1973 mass market paperback is incredibly misleading The cover makes it look like some cheesy fantasy novel while the back makes it sound like a mail order bride romance or something In actuality, To Ride Pegasus is a surprisingly good collection of speculative short stories about the difficulties that would arise in legitimizing psychic powers after they have been proven scientifically, and the social political problems that...

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20 November 2017

Anne McCaffrey