Damia's Children (Rowan/Damia)

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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 knowledge of the psychic defense they can expect from humanity.

However, as it has been learned that Talent can be both bred and taught, the combined abilities of Damia's children make them an even greater power than Damia or her mother. Each child has a special Talent that together makes them the most powerful Gwyn-Raven force yet to come. United they will confront the attackers face to face.

Customer Reviews:

Dreadful.......2007-01-01

This books along with the latter talent books are so unrealistic as to be boring. The first talent books, Pegasus in Flight and Pegasus in Space were interesting and fun because we were reading about real characters.They had Talent, but they were still real people.The characters in the latter talent books are nothing less than gods, with an almost all-powerful Talent, and seemingly little or no personal problems or limitations (which makes th books dull). Also, what the books really portray, without actually saying it is basically a Talent autocracy. Non talented are inferior and unimportant, and the talented rule over everyone else with their powers. This reminds me of Star Trek, where everyone is law abiding, and the authority of the Federation is unquestioned.So what happens to those who question the authority of the Federation? They are automatically outlaws. Its really quite totalitarian.
Anyway, this book is boring and not worth the money.

Good, but a few peeves...........2003-11-21

I listened to the Audio version of Damia's children, and found that it was quite well-narrated. And while I liked this book, I would prefer a book which focused on a single character rather than a novel split into three parts. By rights this should be three books.

The plot is simple: with a threat of the HIVE upon them, the telepathic 'talented' Lyon children must help their parents defend earth from....The predations of a vicious insect species, but are they so vicious? Only the Lyon children seem capable of figuring this out.

I think that the author may fall into a bit of a rut with this series. The Lyon children are 'super' kids, squeaky clean, friendly and well-adjusted. While I understand that they have lots of responsibility, these children are too perfect. They are more competant, more intelligent, and more powerful than anyone else. . No WONDER some Terran's resent them.

Two things that skeeved ne out about this book: Number One: How easily these 'children' are manipulated by the adults. I would hope that in the future they have some form of child labor laws Number Two: The second story about Theon, where he has a relationship with a much older army nurse. Ick. this completely skeeved me out. I guess its just my western mind, but a relationship between a teenager and a much older woman and this person a nurse in a position of authority is pretty gross. No thanks! Ick. Ick. Double Ick!

Overall, the second story cost this book two stars. Not as good as some of her earlier works.

Wonderful!.......2003-07-28

I absolutely love Anne McCaffrey and have read all of her books. I would have given this book five stars but i think that the books before this, The Rowan and Damia, were unbeatable so I couldn't rate this one as equal. I love the whole telekinesis idea. This book continues with the Primes moving stuff from planet to planet with telikinesis, only it follows Damia's children. A reader should definately read The Rowan and then Damia before reading this book.

New heroes(together with the old),new challenges.......2000-08-13

It's interesting to read about Damia's children;their personalities,relationships,the challenges they faced,and the lives they lead.The characters of the previous books("The Rowan" and "Damia") are not forgotten,and we still hear about them and see their involvement.This book has more technical details,especially about the Hivers.A good read!

Damia's children.......2000-06-18

Anne McCaffrey has done it again! Another great book. It follows the story of Damia's 4 eldist children, Laria, Isthian, Rojer and Zara. In my opinan the best parts are when Laria gose to Cleaf and when Isthian is attacked

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A Touching, Well-Written Story
A little disturbing, but rewarding overall.
good book

Damia
Anne McCaffrey
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Waste of time. Take The Rowan, and how ordinary that was, with all the young reader girlish elements, and others silliness, and make it worse.
Have mother and father from that spit out a kid who exacerbates the problems found in that other novel.

Definitely don't waste your time with this one unless some sort of hardcore McCaffrey nut.

An excellent fantasy.......2007-08-22

This was the first Anne McCaffrey book I ever picked up, and I loved it! Ten years after I'd originally read it, I sought it out and re-read it, and I enjoyed it just as much as I had the first time. The characters are completely believable, and one can sympathize with them quite easily. I would recommend starting with The Rowan (the first book in the series), but Damia is also a good stand-alone novel.

McCaffrey's mastery of characters is evident, and she weaves a rich environment for them. This is one of those books I didn't want to be ejected from on the last page, I just wanted to stay immersed in the fantasy and see how the characters developped further. Definitely high on my list of fantasy favorites.

A Touching, Well-Written Story.......2006-04-29

Yet another McCaffrey book where I just fall in love with the characters and identify with their desires and dreams, in spite of the fantasy/sci fi elements. Beautifully written scenes between characters, building tension between them over the years, with tear-wrenching scenes and resolutions, both happy and sad. And as always, McCaffrey weaves her wonderful sense of humor and her sensuality throughout the story and characters.

A little disturbing, but rewarding overall........2003-10-06

The Lyon family of "methody" Capella are Talented folk. This means that they possess telepathic and telekinetic abilities in varying degrees and combinations, although none has the power of a "Prime." Young Afra chafes under the emotional repression and strict propriety of his home-world, and delights in his beloved older sister Goswina's brief apprenticeship to the Rowan - the most powerful Prime Talent known to FT&T.

As a young man, Afra has his own chance to work with the Rowan. He and that lonely woman strike up a rare and wonderful friendship, destined to endure throughout their lifetimes. But romance isn't part of their synergy, and both yearn to find it with other partners. Which the Rowan does, eventually, with an equally powerful but untrained telepath from Deneb: Jeff Raven. Whom she marries, and partners with when FT&T's "Talents" are the only viable defense against an alien invasion.

The Rowan and Jeff Raven produce a family of Talented children, including a daughter named Damia. From childhood, this third in their brood proves herself the most Talented human yet born. She's also temperamental, strong-willed, and unpredictable; and the most important person in her life, from its earliest hours, proves to be her mother's friend and colleague Afra.

Although this book includes some thrilling passages of interstellar conflict carried out by telepathic and telekinetic means, the romance of Damia Gwyn-Raven and Afra Lyon forms its heart and occupies most of its pages. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this romance. The author handles Afra's transition from parental figure to suitor in Damia's life well enough, and there is certainly nothing wrong with a grown woman (even a rather young one) choosing to marry an older man. Nevertheless I came away with residual discomfort, because even McCaffrey couldn't quite convince me that this close friend of Damia's mother (in an emotional sense, her uncle) had any business sharing her bed.

I loved the "coonies" and the Barque Cats, though! And since I've read the rest of the Talent series already, I know that Damia and Afra's marriage is destined to mature into a genuine and healthy partnership. So I would advise other readers to be forewarned that "Damia" may disturb them a little, but I recommend it just the same.

good book.......2002-07-30

This book first tells the story of Afra, who we met in The Rowan, and then goes on to tell Damia's story. I don't think that this book has the same plot as The Rowan at all, although there are a few similarities. If you were intrigued by Afra in the first book, you'll love him in this book. It was wonderful to find out more about him. Damia's childhood makes for an entertaining read, moreso, I think than the Rowan's. However, the Rowan was much more mature as a teenager and young woman than Damia. Teenage Damia is spoiled and annoying, and it's a wonder Afra could ever put up with her. That was one of the reasons I gave this book a four instead of a five. The other reason is that the whole Damia and Afra relationship seemed very strange. Afra never seemed to be very upset by the fact that he was falling in love with the same person he used to babysit. However, in spite of those two things, I really enjoyed this book.

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Boring
Great Read!
Lyons too Proud......
A good read worth the time.
An exciting, character-driven tale.

Lyon's Pride (Rowan/Damia)
Anne McCaffrey
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Release Date: 1994-03-01

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The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge.

Now the combined power of all these generations, especially the unique abilities of the younger Lyon clan, is needed to face once and for all the threat of the alien Hivers. The human worlds see themselves as peaceful, and traditionally they have used deadly force only in self-defense, but now the time has come to take the battle with the Hivers out into space. A fleet of starships, with the powerful Lyon clan as its leaders, is sent into Hiver territory. Their mission: seek and destroy the Hiver threat that is lurking at the edges of known space.

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Boring.......2007-01-01

Great Read!.......2006-08-24

Really enjoy the story, with each new generation of primes the story is extended and made more interesting.

Lyons too Proud.............2003-12-03

I listened to the audio version of Lyon's Pride, and enjoyed it, with a few caveats. One: there was a distinct lack of plot, and two: very little actually happened. Sure, we got a peek into the perfect world of Damia and her Children, but the plot seemed to meander...And the hive 'menace' was not really much of a menace at all.

Pet peeves: Personally, I found the parents (and grandparents) meddling and matchmaking to be annoying. I also thought the gifts of the t-1's and how they manipulated the emotions of the lesser talented to be manipulative, and downright scary. Who says the t-1's have a right to mess with people's emotions? It was quite intrusive of Zara, to mess with the mind of Kincaid while he was sleeping, even if her intentions were good. Such powers can quickly become abusive and Damia's children seem to have no boundaries, despite their motivations.

Also, I liked the character of Kincaid, but nothing was really resolved with him. We never really found out the details about what happened to him on the deep space mission, and the character seems to be dropped halfway through the book. Other romances seemed flat to me. Roger's romance with his cousin Asia was tepid. Asia was just too timid, and Roger too self confidant. Plus there was the cousin thing...Errr, sorry, Anne, that didn't work for me.

Overall, despite these peeves, I liked Lyon's pride. It just didn't go anywhere; and the assumptions and liberties the 'talented' made towards those with lesser gifts were supercilious and grating.

A good read worth the time........2003-03-26

What makes this book worth reading is the that we are able to follow the lives of Damia's children as well as the rest of the extended family. For me that is always what made this series worth reading was the family's dedication to each other in-spite of their egos and talents. This 4th book in a series of 5 Lyon's Pride by Anne McCaffrey is set in the universe we have come to expect of her Talents series. The story continues on with Humanity and it's Allies continued fight against the hivers. There are several subplots that are set up or carried along for conclusion in the 5th book. But it is worth the read if you like this series, and McCaffrey in general.

An exciting, character-driven tale........2003-03-23

"The formidable Lyon's Pride," as a character in the next (and final) book of the Talent series calls them, are the children of T-1 Damia Gwynn-Raven and T-2 Afra Lyon; and that "T" rating is a measure of the Talented one's power. Telepathy and telekinesis keep Human and Mrdini commerce operating by moving travelers and cargoes instantaneously across vast reaches of space. Those same Talents enable the two allied species to battle successfully against a third: the implacable Hivers, who covet the same kind of real estate as do Humans and Mrdini.

All eight of Damia and Afra's children have Talent ratings of T-1. All are destined, as adults, to be known as Primes. Some, like eldest daughter Laria, will operate commercial transfer towers - a prestigious and powerful position, but one that can take a young Prime far away from home. Some, like sons Thian and Rojer, will carve out new roles for Talents in service aboard naval vessels. Second daughter Zara's strongly empathic Talent fits her for the career of healer - after it enables her to do what no one else can manage, by communicating (on however rudimentary a level) with a captured Hiver queen. The Lyon's Pride is, indeed, formidable. Its four eldest are reaching adulthood just in time to play key roles, as the Human-Mrdini alliance begins to solve the Hiver threat that first loomed when their grandparents were young.

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The Rowan
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Rowan, The (Rowan/Damia)
Anne McCaffrey
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ASIN: 1423330293
Release Date: 2007-01-25

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Told in the timeless style of Anne McCaffrey, The Rowan is the first installment in a wonderful trilogy. This is sci-fi at its best: a contemporary love story as well as an engrossing view of our world in the future.

The kinetically gifted, trained in mind/machine gestalt, are the most valued citizens of the Nine Star League. Using mental powers alone, these few Prime Talents transport ships, cargo and people between Earth's Moon, Mars' Demos and Jupiter's Callisto.

An orphaned young girl, simply called The Rowan, is discovered to have superior telepathic potential and is trained to become Prime Talent on Callisto. After years of self-sacrificing dedication to her position, The Rowan intercepts an urgent mental call from Jeff Raven, a young Prime Talent on distant Deneb. She convinces the other Primes to merge their powers with hers to help fight off an attack by invading aliens. Her growing relationship with Jeff gives her the courage to break her status-imposed isolation, and choose the more rewarding world of love and family.

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

This is set in a universe where psionic abilities are utilised in a commercial sense, and have guilds and organisations set up around them.

People use teleportation for space travel, and telepathy for communication, all that sort of thing.

They are graded on ability, and the most talented can do the move the spaceship trick. The book follows a young girl of this variety, of course.

What happened?.......2007-06-01

When we are first introduced to the Rowan, we know she's destined for great things. We travel along as she grows up, becoming an intelligent, articulate, and self-sufficient young woman. She's poised to become a heroine who kicks butt and takes names.

Then, she meets Jeff, turns into a pile of brain dead mush, and is content to forevermore squeeze out lots of babies.

It's sad when things start out looking good and fizzle to a lame end. The Rowan could have been a contender.

The Rowan.......2007-01-10

A replacement for a copy lent out and never returned. Good read, Love McCaffrey.

Really stiff-not her best work.......2006-09-18

"The Rowan" is an example of how Anne McCaffrey can be off-putting in her extremely brilliant writing career-she can be very stiff. While in most books this semi-prudish writing style works well (because of the intense political background of the story) in some books, especially ones that have very little in the way of a plot, it just feels strange and shallow.

"The Rowan" is set in the future, and in this future telepaths are being used a sort of mailman-they shift everything, including spaceships, from one of the planets in the nine star league to the next. Only the highest level of `path can do this-they are called primes (everyone is ranked, t-9 means you are a weak telepath, t-1 is prime level, but you have to be able to teleport also to be a prime.) The Rowan (a woman) is the most powerful prime there is, but she is lonely. Basically, this book is about her being lonely, and then meeting her dream guy, and then there is this alien threat...

Like I said, the book is stiff. So stiff it almost feels like an outline in parts, not a published book. We are never really let in on any of the characters lives, or the situation of the galaxy, or the real nature of the alien threat. I think the problem is, in writing about nearly all powerful people, Anne McCaffrey never really filled us in on the details of their story. Thus, "The Rowan" is an ok book, but not a good one. I did however; enjoy the sequel, "Damia", very much when I was 11 years old, so maybe the rest of this series lightens up. I don't know-but I will read it again to find out.

Three stars

Anne is simply the best.......2005-11-30

Anne McCaffrey is simply this generation's best author and this is the beginning of her best series. The Rowan is a fiery and unique heroine with amazing abilities. She goes on to mother a dynasty of unique Talents in this series. But the Rowan is the start of it all and by far Anne McCaffrey's best book. Strong charachters, fascinating plot line and most of all Anne's amazing imagination! Highly recommended.

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Nice end to a nice series.
The Tower and the Hive
Good Book in Good Series
A realistic conclusion to an exciting series!

Tower and the Hive, The (Rowan/Damia)
Anne McCaffrey
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ASIN: 1423330331
Release Date: 2007-01-25

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Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.

Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?

McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero

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For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various talents to help mankind - some are telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.

Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much - especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered - that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.

The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success - if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.

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Is this Anne McCaffrey?.......2007-03-17

Who really wrote this book? I have to wonder if Todd McCaffrey didn't in fact write this.
That's the only explanation I can come up with for her having seemed to forget her characters so completely.
I just finished reading the whole Talent series back to back and the difference between those books and this is striking.
What happened? I have been wondering what the deal is with her allowing her son Todd to tinker with Pern, the results
of which you can read about in other reviews here on this site. Suffice it to say, they have not been a roaring success.
I personally think he had a large hand in this one, even if he received no credit for it. Why?
After 5 years with no sequel, all of a sudden she decides to come back, like with Skies of Pern and just like that book, this
one has some major problems. For example, the woodenness, the unfamiliarity of all the characters we have come to love
from the last 4 books. The characters just feel all wrong, almost like in fanfic when someone tries hard to emulate the original,
but is just too self aware.
What about the Rowan? She makes glorified cameos, along with Damia and Afra. And frankly, they were the only reasons I
kept reading this book. But they don't appear all that much and the reader is left with the boring personalities of their cookie-cutter
children.
The once interesting and vibrant characters in the first novels have been radically changed, as if McCaffrey did indeed forget
them. In this book, Afra is described as being `methody' when in fact the entire background of the Damia novel was all about him
NOT being methody, which was why he had to leave Capella. Jeff Raven is now a Peter Reidinger clone, shamelessly manipulating
his horde of offspring and heavily pressuring them to accept outposts on planets light years away from family and friends. The
Rowan is somewhere in the background there. She has one or two paragraphs, but not much else. What happened to the Jeff Raven
who wanted to rebel? Or even the Rowan for that matter.
My other misgivings about this so-called `ending' are these:

1. The plot meanders all over the place. I mean, why is the Hiver Queen now into her third book of incarceration, and no one has
a clue how to talk to her yet? Zara was supposed to be the liaison with godlike gifts of empathy, but she goes on to other things and
never comes in contact with the Hiver Queen again. Later they attribute her understanding of the Queen's distress as having been
just chance. Now, this is the first break with canon that got my attention and why I think someone other than McCaffrey had a hand
in writing this thing. You may recall, that Zara felt the pain of the Queen from several light years away, and when she got close, she
immediately understood that she was freezing to death. The continuity error here is a step beyond the shoddily written intro where
Afra is listed as being Damia's brother, for Pete's sake. This is just a straight cop out, and if they didn't want to write any more,
they would have been better off not bothering at all. Of course, there's no money in that, is there?

2.The other children and their significant others go from one planet to the other, hypothesizing and theorizing about Hiver biology,
when what the reader wants to know is: What happened to so and so --? And it just goes on and on, along with the ridiculous
subplot of developing birth control methods for the `Dinis. The final answer of how to talk with the Hivers is very contrived and
goes against earlier canon. Uh, why weren't the pheromones detected in Damia's Children when Zara pulled her `antic'? Why
didn't the Queen react to Zara's pheromones? You might remember she stank so badly, she was rushed into the showers, and yet in
the Tower and Hive, the mere hint of garlic caused a Hiver to react to cleanse the air. It's all just nonsense. Forget writing the
Biology textbook for the 24th century, this story was always about the PEOPLE and I think the communication thing with the
Hivers could have been so much more interesting . . . as in, what if they are Telepathic in some new way? That would have
explained why Zara could hear her all those light years away and the instantaneous communication from the Queen to her workers.
Pheromones take time, because they require air. And air, even in a hurricane, can only go so fast.

3. Damia's children. To the last man (or woman) they are absolutely perfect. They don't gripe about working full time jobs from
the time they are 12 or so and don't seem to want to rebel against their grandfather's unceasing demands as well as his schemes to
turn them all into baby factories. They don't seem to mind being bred like cattle. In addition, we are left at the end of the book
knowing that they will all be searching for Hiver worlds forever on board navy vessels in order to drop the pheromones on them.
For years and years and years. And I thought my job was bad.

4. No interesting characters. The one possibility, Vagrian, is given more time in the book than the Rowan or Damia but turned out
to be a red herring. Why did they bring in this character? He adds nothing to the story and once he is mind-fixed, has no other
purpose. Why did McCaffrey introduce us to him, if he doesn't do anything important? He doesn't even seduce one of her available
daughters, so there's no reason for him to be in the story. You begin to wonder if there wasn't more planned for that character McCaffrey
(or Todd) just lost steam and tied it all up.

5. That's yet another problem. Too many pat answers, the most glaring of which is the Laria/Kincaid relationship. Now, why go to all
the trouble to reinforce that the man is gay in the other books, and then just have him forget all that and become straight just for her.
Because he loves her? It doesn't work that way. So now, we are left with their very implausible relationship and of course her entry
into the halls of baby making. How about a female Talent that -gasp!- chooses not to have ANY babies! Now that might be a good
story.

So, we are finally left with an incomplete and hurried story, up to an including the Final Solution for the Buggers -I mean Hivers.
(Wouldn't want Orson Scott Card to get mad or anything.) What made these books so great was the concept of Talent combined with
the interesting personalities. From Rhyssa Owen to Damia, even Jeff Raven before his character got ruined. It would have been better
not to end it like this, but leave it with the open ended finale in Lyon's Pride.

Nice end to a nice series........2007-01-18

Well - the "Tower and Hive" Series (Starting with "The Rowan") has seen better books - but it manages to tie up a couple of loose ends from "Lyon's Pride" and puts an acceptable end to the series without making another book impossible...
It gets 4 out of 5 because I expected more a little more from the story...

The Tower and the Hive.......2007-01-10

Just filling out my library, completing the series. I find McCaffrey's books very easy reads, but good tales and well written.

Good Book in Good Series.......2006-11-14

Anne McCaffrey has a great series using ESP powers with Interseller Travel, Aliens (Good and Bad). Great series

A realistic conclusion to an exciting series!.......2005-04-17

I have read most every book by Anne McCaffrey that is out there including the Pern books and Acorna books. I have enjoyed the Talent series the most for the creativity of the author and the reality checks that are included. I admit it would have been nice to have a perfectly completed and everything resolved type of ending but for me, I enjoyed that while the major issues of how to get the Hivers to not go out and destroy worlds populated with sentient beings and getting the Gwyn-Raven-Lyon grandchildren out on their own and starting their own dynasty are resolved more quietly than with a big bang!

Especially touching and interesting in this book was the more information we got on Mrdinis, their hibernation and reproductive habits as well as their attitudes and politics. The relationships between Asia and Rojer and Laria and Dano were also very nicely matured.

I enjoyed learning more about the "bad guys" -- the Hivers -- their habitat was so well described I could just picture it. I also swear that I have had a "sting-pzzt" type of experience -- when my husband used to work in a factory before we were married and came home with a sort of metallic powder all over him. It was definitely a smell/taste/feeling!!

I was also glad that this book had a few less tragedies since the last book had quite a few. The invasion of the Blundell building was exciting and showed how Jeff Raven and the Rowan have still "got it."

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Pharmaceutically active substances are a class of new, so-called "emerging" contaminants that have raised great concern in recent years. Human and veterinary drugs are constantly being introduced into the environment, mainly as a result of the manufacturing process. Over a period of time, this level of chemical input may lead to long-term concentrations and promote continual, but unnoticed adverse effects on aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Analysis, Fate and Removal of Pharmaceuticals in the Water Cycle discusses state-of-the-art analytical methods for trace determination of pharmaceuticals in environmental samples while reviewing the fate and occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the water cycle (elimination in wastewater and drinking water treatment). Focus is given to the newest developments in the treatment technologies, such as membrane bioreactors and advance oxidation processes.

* Well-structured overview of latest developments in trace determination
* Concise and critical compilation of literature published over the last few years
* Focuses on new treatment technologies, such as membrane bioreactors and advance oxidation processes

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Damia 1ST Edition Inscribed
Anne Mccaffrey
Manufacturer: BANTAM PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q9NKCA

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Damia 1ST Edition Signed
Anne Mccaffred
Manufacturer: G P PUTNAMS SONS
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ASIN: B000PVBPYO

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Damia's Children
Anne McCaffrey
Manufacturer: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993
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ASIN: B000NXFV8U

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