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''[[The Tower and
The series is set against a backdrop of a technologically advanced future society in which [[Psychic Powers|telepathy, telekinesis and other psychic abilities]] have become scientifically accepted and researched. Telekinetic and telepathic powers are used to communicate and teleport spaceships through space, thus avoiding the light barrier and allowing for the colonization of other solar systems. Books in the series include
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* ''The Rowan'': The series as most know it started here, with the story of The Rowan, an orphaned Prime Talent, as she deals with life, loneliness and a possible alien invasion.
* ''Damia'': ''The Rowan'''s sequel is part straight sequel, part-[[POV Sequel]] and part backstory for Afra Lyon, a secondary character from the previous book. The book is mostly about the relationship between Afra and the most important women in his life (his beloved older sister, The Rowan and The Rowan's middle child, Damia. And another alien invasion.
* ''Damia's Children'' and ''Lyon's Pride'' stars [[Exactly What It Says
* ''The Tower and The Hive'': The wrap-up to the threat of the Hivers (and probably the series, itself after [[Author Existence Failure|McCaffery's death]])
* ''Pegasus In Flight'' and ''Pegasus In Space'': Direct sequels to ''To Ride Pegasus'' meant to officially [[Arc Welding|merge]] the Pegasus storyline with that of the Talents.
An earlier short story, ''The Lady In The Tower'' (from the collection '"Get Off The Unicorn'') contains many elements of the what would become the Talents universe, but isn't universally considered part of it.
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* [[The Ace]]: Jeff Raven.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Every story arc of the series has ended with the main female character pregnant (The Rowan was pregnant with her second at the end of ''The Rowan''.)
* [[Brainwashing for
* [[Brown Note]]: Any Talent in proximity to anything Hiver-made experiences a sensation known as "sting-pzzt", which makes them edgy and irritable.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Afra, twice: once with The Rowan - though she already knew, once with Damia - who couldn't either.
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* [[Companion Cube]]: The Rowan and the Pukha (a stuffed toy she was given that hides a raft of monitoring devices). She knows it's "just" a toy, but she still has (one-sided) conversations with it.
* [[Da Chief]]: Peter Reidinger.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: {{spoiler|Laria.}}
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Damia's older siblings.
* [[Death
* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: Subverted -- ''No one'' thinks giving The Rowan to Siglen to be trained as a Prime is the best idea -- Siglen is a great Prime but horrible person. But there's no one else on the planet qualified to teach her and sending her elsewhere would do more harm than good, thanks to Travel Sickness.
* [[Differently-Powered Individual]]: The Talents.
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* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Stock in trade for precognitive Talents.
* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]: Once the Talents figure out the strategy of simply teleporting warheads into the engine cores of Hiver ships, the conflict becomes mostly about finding ways to stop the Hivers without [[Genocide Dilemma|committing genocide.]]
* [[Faster
* [[The Ghost]]: Damia's youngest sibling, Erzo.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The Rowan is rather [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|high-maintenance]]. Part of Peter Reidinger's job is keeping her staff somewhat together.
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* [[Heroic Albino]]: The Rowan, though she's more very pale than a true albino.
* [[High Turnover Rate]]: Afra is the first of Rowan's right-hand men to last more than a few months.
* [[Humans Are Psychic in
* [[Humanity Is Superior]]: The Mrdini have been fighting the Hivers for generations. Humanity swats them down within one (during which the Hivers were only briefly a real threat).
* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: It's what the Talents do to the first Hiver invasion ship.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Afra's attitude towards The Rowan, whom he'd been in love with for years before Jeff Raven swooped in.
* [[If I Can't Have You]]/[[Taking You
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: Gay Kinkaid sleeping with his straight best friend, Laria, because they were both lonely and hurting over bad breakups. Turns out their Mrdini companions mentally "[[Aliens Made Them Do It|nudged]]" them towards each other. They didn't really mind.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Siglen.
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