Books with title The Wings of Pegasus

Once upon a time, the Earth became crowded and overpopulated. To combat this threat, a massive interstellar spaceship called the ARK was built. It was comprised of 52 O’Neill Cylinders, and designed to ferry the people of Earth to a new home. However, at some point in the voyage, something went wrong. The engines shut down, the Cylinders became isolated, and the ARK began to drift as a derelict through space. As the years passed, the people inside the ARK completely forgot there even was a world outside their respective Cylinders.Now, Lucy Natsumi is a young girl living in the Cylinder of Arkadia. Day after day, she toils in the fields of the fat and greedy Lord Takeda. However, unlike her fellow workers, who grimly accept their lot in life, Lucy dreams of something greater. When she falls asleep, she sees an endless sky, one that stretches out into infinity, even though Lucy knows that such a sky cannot exist. One day, a mysterious aircraft appears in Arkadia, and Lucy meets its pilots, an Artificial Intelligence named Haruhi and a smuggler named Fuyuki. They are on the run from Akina Zakari, a police officer from their own Cylinder of Neapolis. However, by sheer accident, the pair of pilots have stumbled into Arkadia.Leaping at the chance to escape Arkadia, Lucy joins Haruhi and Fuyuki on their quest to return to Neapolis. However, the road home is fraught with many perils. Before the adventure is over, Lucy will have to face Zakari and her fellow officers, the many weird and wonderful worlds that lie inside each of the Cylinders, and a deep, dark, terrible secret that threatens the lives of everyone onboard the ARK.

As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center.

From Publishers Weekly McCaffrey continues to develop her future world in which psionic Talents, once feared and despised, are by now necessary to the comfort and conduct of society. Following the events in To Ride, Pegasus and set a generation or so before The Rowan , this era finds mankind not yet having settled planets outside the solar system. Even with officially mandated birth control, the world teems with too many people. Essential to the construction of a space station being built to serve as springboard to the stars are the services of the Talents--particularly the telekinetics, who can move objects by mental power. Telepath Rhyssa Owen, a top official of the Center for Parapsychic Talents, must contend with the station's construction manager, who treats Talents brutally and otherwise discourages them from working for her. Meanwhile two youngsters are found to be unusually Talented: Peter Reidinger overcomes paralysis to develop the first gestalt with electrical generators (this becomes the basis for future space travel), while Tirlap, an illegal child from the vertical slums, facilitates communication among a wide variety of cultures. Meanwhile, kidnappers prey on children for pederastic pursuits and for spare parts. McCaffrey's world of the Talented is as vivid as that of Pern and its dragons.

Many people can identify Pegasus, the winged horse from Greek myths, but they may not know that he sprung from the head of the monster Medusa! Pegasus's important roles in myths of the heroes Perseus and Bellerophon are featured in this thrilling retelling of the famous stories. Pegasus isn't just in the pages of books, though. The Pegasus constellation is one of the largest in the night sky from the end of summer through fall. Readers will learn what the constellation looks like through photographs as well as delight in the illustrations of the myths.