![]() ![]() I read quite a few of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books when I was a teenager but I've not read anything of hers in years so I was quite excited to give this series a try when my friend told me it was one of her favourites. Visit Anne McCaffrey's website for more information Get off the Unicorn (Short Story Collection) Every resource on the planet was centred into finding 'The Rowan' - the new Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more talented, more powerful, more agoraphobic, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star league. ![]() Every Altarian who was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help, but no one knew where she was buried. And now, on the planet Altair, in a small mining colony on the western mountain range, a new Prime existed, a three-year-old girl - trapped in a giant mud slide that had wiped out the rest of the Rowan mining community. But Primes were scarce - only very rarely was a new one born. On the Primes rested the entire economic wealth and communications systems of the civilised worlds. ![]() ![]() Their gifts were many and varied, ranging from the gently telepathic, to the rare and extremely valued Primes. The Talents were the elite of the Nine Star League. The first book in the Tower and the Hive sequence ![]()
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