My rating:
add to my books
Loading...
Damia's Children (Pegasus/The Tower and the Hive #7)
The children of the legendary Damia are coming of age and learning to master their own remarkable powers of telepathy. Each has a special Talent, and their combined abilities are even greater than those of their powerful mother. Now they must face the next generation of their enemy--an alien race more insect than human.
Mass Market Paperbound, 325 pages
Published
February 1st 1994
by ACE Charter
There is a good chance some of your friends read this book. Sign in to see!
sign in »
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is currently not featured on any Listopia lists.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
4,538)
More enjoyable than I expected after reading the other reviews on here. I remember enjoying it the first time I read it. Whatever AM conceivably lacks in literary style, she more than makes up for with imagination, plot, and her facility for creating individual, interesting characters quickly through little more than mental and verbal dialogue. While this one may not be one of the crowning achievements of her career, it was still plenty engaging. If I could write as prolifically as she did, I wo...more
Wonderful, and I was in it.......: I have been a McCaffery fan for quite a few years, grabbing anything and everything with her name on. The Tower and the Hive chronicles began in "The Rowan" and "Damia" continue in this the 3rd book, These books seem to continue the thoughts began in "Pegasus in Flight" although at a future point in time. Better still as one of Damia's Children is called Zara, I could really picture myself in the story. Another fantastic book from ...more
Kathleen Dixon
rated it
·
review of another edition
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
fantasy,
so-long-ago-i-can-t-remember-when
I started off feeling a little "here we go again, same old same old" and thinking the writing style was a little "fluffy", but before very long I was caught up again. I'm very glad I'm reading these through (after probably 30 years since I first read them), and I'm starting to think that it's quite possible I'll work my way through them all again (definitely the Pern ones and this series) in another 20 or 30 years.
McCaffrey gives me people I like, with interesting ...more
McCaffrey gives me people I like, with interesting ...more
In Damia's Children, one of science fiction and fantasy's most beloved novelists, Anne McCaffrey, continues the story of psychic Talent begun with The Rowan and Damia. The Rowan's next generation of passionate and talented descendants prepare to defend their worlds against an alien attack of mysterious origin.
Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space. Hungry for more living space, they return with plans to dominate, armed with knowl...more
Damia had deflected a previous attack on the human worlds and sent the aliens into deep space. Hungry for more living space, they return with plans to dominate, armed with knowl...more
I liked this book although it ends mid-story. Each of Damia's children are interesting and the characters are likable. I especially liked that she emphasized different strengths in each although some are so far-fetched. I liked Thian's story the best and Zara's the least, but I'll have to keep reading for anything to happen apparently. I'm surprised she took this chunk and called it a book in the first place because nothing major happened and then it cuts off mid-sentence.
I've read this series several times over the years and always enjoyed the expansions of the first story. In this book the story does not quite develop the same as there are too many characters to try to follow completely, too many story lines trying to be completed. But I enjoyed the read and the continuation of a great story. Good book and story.
the struggle of damia's children coming to terms with their gifts and how they can help the universe and how their friendships can create a link to another race of beings.
Not bad. Very much like an uneventful episode in a mini-series. Felt more like it was written as an in-between, something to link two other books. Eh.
The continuing saga of the Rowan & Jeff Raven, their daughter and son-in-law, Damia and Afra Lyon, and Damia's 5(?) children, Laria, Thian, Peter, Xara, and Petra. (I think there's two more, but I can't remember their names.) This family heads the FT&T (Federal Teleport & Telepath) in a futuristic setting. All have psychic talent which they use to make interstellar travel possible in the blink of an eye.
This book details their newly discovered alien friends, the Mrdini, and the ...more
This book details their newly discovered alien friends, the Mrdini, and the ...more
I liked the Damia series, sometimes it got hard to follow and the weird green guy was never explained (At least, I don't remember it)
SciFi/Fantasy. Another light read in this series, it follows 'Damia'. If you've enjoyed the series so far you'll enjoy this one.
Third in the 'Tower & Hive' series. Still enjoying the telepathic and telekinetic abilities of the heroes and heroines. Love McCaffrey!! Will look for next several books.
One of my favorites - Lots of things going on and new alien stuff all over the place.
After Damia this book was a bit of a let down as Damia and Afra are hardly mentioned. I still enjoyed it but it is not as strong as the previous book.
For those who like spaceships they will love this book as they feature heavily. As can be expected the main focus is on Damia's children. It can be seen as 4 linked stories so at times it is frustrating as just as you are getting into it the focus of the story changes to another of the children.
It is a good follow up in term...more
For those who like spaceships they will love this book as they feature heavily. As can be expected the main focus is on Damia's children. It can be seen as 4 linked stories so at times it is frustrating as just as you are getting into it the focus of the story changes to another of the children.
It is a good follow up in term...more
Damia's children team up with their Mirdini friends to fight the beatles.
Bug aliens starting to get kind of old...
I wanted to like this, as it is a return to my genre sci-fi roots, but I found this particular work quite disappointing.
It's not really a book, more like 3-4 novellas strung together without any overarching point. I tossed this book while in jr. high, because I thought I had the "villain" in the second story figured out, but it turns out I was wrong... although the person it turned out to be, and the way the situation was resolved was trite and VERY easy to accomplish.
...more
It's not really a book, more like 3-4 novellas strung together without any overarching point. I tossed this book while in jr. high, because I thought I had the "villain" in the second story figured out, but it turns out I was wrong... although the person it turned out to be, and the way the situation was resolved was trite and VERY easy to accomplish.
...more
(to be written later)
Lady Lioness
marked it as keepers
Den Cabinets
This was not my first time on this book. I still enjoy it to the 5 star level. The entire Pegasus and Rowan series is fun.
This book introduces Damia's Talented children, Laria, Isthian, Rojer, Zara, Petra, Morag, and a few others. Laria is the oldest, and gets to go to Clarf, the Mrdini homeworld, to help in the Tower.
This book introduces the Mrdinis, who provide companionship to the children and experience their adventures.
This book introduces Damia's Talented children, Laria, Isthian, Rojer, Zara, Petra, Morag, and a few others. Laria is the oldest, and gets to go to Clarf, the Mrdini homeworld, to help in the Tower.
This book introduces the Mrdinis, who provide companionship to the children and experience their adventures.
Nola
rated it
·
review of another edition
·
review of another edition
Recommended to Nola by:
Mom
Shelves:
fiction-science-fiction,
to-review
It just went on and on and on....! I read this one because I hate to stop mid-series (which I did, anyway; I gave up on the next one and hit up the Left Behind series instead). Instead of following one person, we had four different kids, and we jumped around a lot. The challenges were interesting but there was no feeling of completion. Great, the bug is happy, is that it? Dull.
This book introduces Damia's Talented children, Laria (my inspiration for my screen name), Isthian, Rojer, Zara, Petra, Morag, and a few others. Laria is the oldest, and gets to go to Clarf, the Mrdini homeworld, to help in the Tower.
I really like this book because it introduces the Mrdinis, who provide companionship to the children and experience their adventures.
I really like this book because it introduces the Mrdinis, who provide companionship to the children and experience their adventures.
The basic storyline that began in The Rowan is finally well underway. The characters are also more established. The story has a few plot holes that you have to look past but I'm fond of both the characters and the story that is now established and can look past the writing style.
I love this series! More twists and turns and you truly get a good feel for family and love from how the author shows it as the most important theme in this series...but the sci fi part keeps you thoroughly entertained.
After Damia and Afra, I had to read more about their family.
This book had a lot of inspiration, adventure, and each child had their own part. It was like a multitude of stories all happening at once. I loved it.
This book had a lot of inspiration, adventure, and each child had their own part. It was like a multitude of stories all happening at once. I loved it.
I love this series that starts with To Ride Pegasus and ends with The Tower and the Hive. Mental telepathy, kenesis and portation are great topics to base books on especially for sci-fi.
This is the last of this series that was truly interesting to me. I'm amazed than McCaffrey spun a short story (The Rowan) into this many volumes.
More about the talented people I'd come to love, flaws and all.
I always loved this book and I still do!
I love how the next generation just gets better.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Readers Also Enjoyed
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 1:30 p.m., in the hour of the Sheep, year of the Fire Tiger, sun sign Aries with Taurus rising and Leo mid-heaven (which seems to suggest an early interest in the stars).
Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent....more
More about Anne McCaffrey...
Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent....more
Share This Book
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
