Reviews

Pegasus in Space by Anne McCaffrey

wyvernfriend's review against another edition

4.0

Peter Reddinger grows up, gets his wish of going to space and the novel bridges between the Pegaus Series and the Hive series.
I did like it, sometimes the technobabble washed over me but mostly I enjoyed the story. I liked the story about Peter and his learning about himself. I also liked the sneaky musical reference.

aslikeanarnian's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

skoglundk's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

tessisreading2's review against another edition

2.0

Such a disappointment. As other readers have written, wildly disjointed, and we get mere glimpses of the non-Peter Reidinger characters met in the earlier books. The various plotlines are zoomed through hastily, and the introduction of a new Talent appears to be done solely to

Spoiler

provide a way to cure Peter's paralysis, which struck me as really unfortunate - one of the fascinating things about the previous book was Peter's paralysis and the ways in which that both spurred and was helped by his telekinesis. McCaffrey clearly did her research - when Rhyssa and her husband are discussing Peter's love life (because boundaries aren't a thing, I guess?), Dave points out that paralyzed Peter is medically still capable of sex - which is why it's disappointing that she chose to Miracle Cure him.

I mean, every single character's life gets wrapped up in a few lines with a neat little bow, but I almost wish I hadn't read it, actually; it was just too disappointing after my preadolescent delight in its predecessor.

elizafiedler's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

felinity's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Finally reading the Talents and Tower series back to back, in chronological order, and it's made it much more enjoyable! Here we're following Peter Reidinger (I) and the others as humans and Talents start to expand their working environment.

craftingrama's review against another edition

5.0

I got access to this audiobook this weekend and although I did want to get the rest of them I wasn't able to so listened to it anyways. The narrator has some extra stunts to represent the mindspeaking to each other, the intercom etc and it about drove me batty but it was to a fair degree understandable but just barely as there was a couple of times I wasn't sure what was said. Anne McCaffrey is one of my ultimate favourite writers and I was not let down in the slightest even with the displeasing narration of her fantastic book. I was even forcing myself to stay awake longer just to be able to attempt to finish it but had to give up and shut it off as there was too much to listen to and I did need to sleep desperately. I finished it off today and wanting more but it was a good ending and wrapped it up nicely.

littlemustard's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

claystarfire's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

amalyndb's review against another edition

5.0

The last of the Pegasus trilogy is magnificent. Reading this was transcendent, imagining the what-if gestalt and telekinetic abilities were in our physical world, of the possibilities. The end of the novel forms the setup of Federated Telepath & Teleport - the organization in The Tower and Hive series.

(Granted, the thought of our planet, at this point in time in terms of general political and social landscape setting off to colonize other worlds is a bit terrifying. More so now on typing this from my phone to computer for posting just before New Years)

I teared up a bit, during the epilogue, as to explore space, to visit other worlds I have hungered to do since I was very young watching Star Trek - and will be unlikely to ever be able to do.