Series
Tower and the Hive
Anne McCaffrey · 5 novels · 2 novelettes · 1959–1999
The Tower and the Hive series opens with The Rowan (1990), following an isolated but powerful telepath who is drawn out of her loneliness by a psychic call for help from a distant Talent facing an alien threat. Anne McCaffrey continued the story across four more novels, Damia, Damia's Children, Lyon's Pride, and the concluding The Tower and the Hive (1999), following later generations of a telepathic family staffing the Prime Towers that give a starfaring human civilization instant communication. The series is set later in the same Talents universe as McCaffrey's earlier Pegasus books.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Tower and the Hive at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s1
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s5
Shape
5 novels · 2 novelettes
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionpsychic powersspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 86% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Tower and the Hivedarkest · most intense
- The Rowanbrightest
- A Meeting of Mindscalmest