Book description
Earth was at bursting point, in spite of the birth restrictions of
only one child to each couple. Extra children existed in a
sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery. The only hope was
the space platform -- the jumping-off point for the colonization of
other worlds. But more Talents were needed to build and operate those platforms.
Rhyssa Owen was the one responsible, both for finding Talents and
training them. And when she felt the first encroachment of a mind
reaching out to her, she knew it was exceptional -- a
fourteen-year-old boy with incredibly powerful kinetic ability. And in
the seamy underworld of near-criminal children was another brilliant
mind in danger from a ruthless group of child kidnappers.
Rhyssa knew she had to find the two children and train them for the
survival of earth.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated
cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and
Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her
handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination,
particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the
Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own
design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Visit the author's website at www. annemccaffrey. net
