Book titles and reading list

[Goldendragon]

Well I have to admit that I am a huge fan of the Pern series and all but so far my immersion in to AMC has limited to the big giants of the sky. So I am tring to expand my horizon and collect the talented seires. Might as well, since I need another series to reread in between the time it takes me to want to read the Dragonriders series. Would someone please list all the books in this series and the order that they go in so as I can start another collecting sprie. Thanks much.

[granath]

Chronologically the books are as follows:
Pegasus:
To Ride Pegasus
Pegasus in Flight
Pegasus in Space

Tower:
The Rowan
Damia
Damia's Children
Lyon's Pride
The Tower and the Hive

The Tower books take place several centuries after the Pegasus books, altough no exact time reference is given. However, the books might be easier to get into if you read the Talent books first, starting with the Rowan.

[JayEgo]

I got the impression that the tower books weren't that far ahead of the pegasus series in time but then, as oyu say, they never specified... I suppose it would've taken a fe whundred years to get to that degree of technological advancement?

Perosnally though, I'd recommend the Pegasus books as a good starting point... Work through the series in order. You get to grips with the foundations and you can understand the future more.

Ja¥son xx

[Goldendragon]

Thank you. Ill start collecting right away. So how do you rank this series with the others series besides the Dragonriders?

[granath]

Thank you. Ill start collecting right away. So how do you rank this series with the others series besides the Dragonriders?

It's my favorite. I even wrote a character index for it, although I haven't updated it for ages. Towerdex (http://www.geocities.com/mhallfors/amc)

Spoilers follow!







Peter Reidinger IV was over 100 years old at the end of The Rowan. He was the 4th of that name, and the third to be Earth Prime. Somehow I get the feeling that the people weren't always consecutive, so that there would be some other Reidingers in between. Since 3 were Earth Primes, maybe Peter was a name reserved for exceptionally strong Talents in the Reidinger family...

Capella was the first planet to be colonized using Talent-assisted transfers, and they had time to develop a local skin-color mutation. Hardly a matter of one generation even assuming an all-Caucasian gene pool to start with (the pale green wouldn't show on anything else).

[Dawn]

Thank you. Ill start collecting right away. So how do you rank this series with the others series besides the Dragonriders?

The Talent series is my 2nd favorite, right behind the Freedom books. :good: And like Jayson, I recommend reading the Pegasus books before the Tower books. :)

[granath]

The Talent series is my 2nd favorite, right behind the Freedom books. :good: And like Jayson, I recommend reading the Pegasus books before the Tower books. :)

My recommendation stems from the fact that I couldn't get into the Pegasus series when I first tried to read it. Things only clicked for me after I'd read the Tower books.

[Just Bob]

My advice is to read them all in publication order. The Pegasus books come before the Tower & Hive books in narrative order, but Pegasus in Space goes into a couple of things that you won't really _get_ unless you've read at least The Rowan, most significantly the setting up of Callisto Tower.
Unfortunbately, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what the publication order is.

[Dawn]

My recommendation stems from the fact that I couldn't get into the Pegasus series when I first tried to read it. Things only clicked for me after I'd read the Tower books.

I'll admit I'm a little bit biased - the Pegasus books are my favorites of the series. :) I read To Ride Pegasus first, since it was the only one published at the time, and really enjoyed it. Later when I read The Rowan I didn't connect them at first, but when I did, it was nice to already know the history. :good:

[B`dgyr]

I'm with Granath on this one. I read The Rowan etc. first, then Pegasus.
I enjoyed it very much....

[Faren]

It's interesting to read why one reads a series in a different order than another.

I read the Pegasus books first, but I think the first time I read it, Pegasus in Space hadn't been written or my library didn't have it. So I read that one out of order.

I'd read the Pegasus books first, myself. :D

[Maira]

Well I've read the first book of both parts: The Rowan and To Ride Pegasus. I will admit though that I only read The Rowan out of desperation for an AMC book one time while i was away and ran out of books. Also have to admit it got me seriously hooked on the Talent series hehe. I read The Rowan first and just read To Ride Pegasus which I liked really well also. I'm not sure which are my favorites just yet since I haven't read any of the others but I'm fairly sure you'll enjoy them Goldendragon.

[msbookdragon]

. . that didn't even know the books were related! I read Rowan and the Pegasus books all out of whack and over many years before it clicked and then read them again, in order, when Damia came out. Then I had to wait, then wait. I keep going back to the beginning. All have been read twice but my pegasus books and The Rowan are falling apart!

As far as rating them. . . I only read the first Acorna book, no desire to read the rest. I've done the Freedom series but only the first three, once. For me , I think I'll have to put it up with the Crystal Singer series and Petaybee series as both have been read many times. As for single titles, maybe The Coelura and No One Noticed the Cat

[Goldendragon]

Well thanks everyone for the info but in my stupidity I forgot to bring a list to the book store. I accedently read Pegasus in Flight then Pegasus in Space before I realized that To Ride Pegasus was suppose to be first. I should have just bought them all at once enstead one at a time. Oh well, I really like them. Im hooked already, now I need to go and get the Tower series.

[Dawn]

Even though you didn't read To Ride Pegasus first, you should still be okay. :ok: It tells about the background of the Talent universe through short stories and can be read alone.

Glad you enjoyed them! :cool: :bouncy:

[dragon_dreams]

Hmmm, I wish I had of read this thread before I started, I read the Tower series first and still havent managed to be able to get the Pegasus books yet :redfruit:

[Talstar(TalenaFiend)]

Oh My favortie Books of Anne's. And the one that got me hooked on her. THe very first book I read of Anne's was THE ROWAN. I got hooked on her books. My mom had been reading the Pern Series for awhile and kept getting me to try to read it. It actually was not untill about 5 years after I read THE ROWAN and the rest of both series, before I ever read PERN. I am still tryign to read Dinosaur Planet but I think that is the only series of Anne's that I haven't read yet, besides the romances, and I am working on it. I just have to make sure I have all the boks first. I hate not being able to finish a series.
As for Order of Reading Talents. I think TOWER AND HIVE series first then Pegasus. But only if you haven't read Anne before. If you have then I don't think it matters.