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Catching up on a few things today after being unwell this weekend, including this game.The book I‘ve chosen for this letter was one of my favourite McCaffreys when I was a teenager.The first in the Tower & the Hive series,it‘s about a young girl found after a landslide on her outer planet kills her parents. Her deafening mental screams mark her as a powerful Talent, capable of moving ships between planets. Highly recommend.

I have a dilemma!

I've adored these book covers for years and loved the series as a teen. But after rereading them all recently, I hated the stories.

Do I keep them for the sake of the covers? Or do I unhaul a series whose storytelling I no longer enjoy? #poll

Even almost 30yrs later, this SciFi novel sings with life and originality. McCaffrey was a genius at writing space stories that were more about characters than settings, though the settings are pretty special themselves. I could reread every single book she wrote multiple times and still not get bored. I highly recommend her not just to seasoned SciFi readers like myself, but to the next generation of us who may not know who she is.🚀

I‘m over halfway through The Rowan and I‘m pairing it with a snack of a tub of the new Connoisseur Australian Native Collection:Bush Honey + Nougat with Cinnamon Myrtle. #HSreadathon

Edit: The ice cream was amazing!

I‘ve had a sudden craving for McCaffrey so I‘m starting with The Rowan series which is one of my favourites. Hell, I love all her series, the Pern books, the CrystalSinger trilogy, the Ship Who Sang series etc. But I do have a soft spot for this one, it‘s just so captivating with its Psionic Talents, barquecats, hive-mind aliens & an orphan girl right in the middle of it all.

Enjoying a beautiful day, rocking my Easter nails, and relaxing with this fun read while I wait for the family gathering later today! #happyeaster #Ivedotafeeling #dragons #magic #love

4/5 ⭐. There were definitely moments that irritated me, but then there would be amazing moments I loved. Had to get used to the weird pacing. Upon this reread the book didn't live up to my memory of the perfect rating I gave it when I first read it as a teen, but it was still very entertaining. I can't wait to reread the rest of the series. Also I love the cover art! #projectreread #TomeInfinityAndBeyond2018

#SizzlinSummerBooks #day18 #Futuristic All of Anne McCaffreys books are set in a future version of Earth. This particular series is in a future where "Psy talents" are used to run the galaxy. The rare talents called "Primes" have the ability to use telekinesis to send & catch transports, cargo & also have strong telepathic talent to talk to other primes and Psy talents all over the colonised galaxy. One of my favourite SciFi series of all time.?

Anne McCaffrey was one of the first SciFi writers I ever picked up as a kid at the library. Together with Piers Anthony & Raymond Feist she gave me a lifelong love of a Fantasy/SciFi. She was a very prolific writer, along with this series(The Tower & The Hive) she wrote the Dragonflight series, Crystalsinger,The Ship Who Sang & the Doona books. All of her stories were based on psychic abilities as she had a great belief in their existence. 5⭐️

I'm having trouble settling on one of my bountiful choices on my tbr, so I'm rereading The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey. I did have a physical copy but it's another lost on the way to my library so it's ebook time. This is a fascinating take on scifi, in order to colonise space, humans have relied on "Talents",people with psy abilities, telekinesis, teleportation etc, in order to move ships & cargo between worlds. Most of McCaffreys novels involve Psy.

I remember as a little girl asking my dad about women writers and then about Sci-fi. He just handed me this. It was so good and gave me hope I'll write sci-fi one day. #publishedinthe1990s #photoadaynov16

I love Anne McCaffrey. I do. And the first half of the book was fabulous. But once she brought in the love interest the whole story went downhill. The relationship is unhealthy and rushed. Also the main suspenseful event that needed to be overcome, was rushed, summarized, and solved quickly with no intellectual strain. Disappointing.