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The Talents Books in Order

Anne McCaffrey has written 10 The Talents books, published between 1973 and 2010. The first book is To Ride Pegasus (1973) and the newest is Catacombs (2010). Publication order is the reading order below.

Also searched as Talent, Talents.

Books
10
Published
1973–2010
Confirmed
10 of 10 titles
Pages on record
2,236 in 7 of 10 books
Reading time
37–56 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,236 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

See all 10 books in order Printable The Talents checklist

The Talents are the recurring psychic characters in Anne McCaffrey's science fiction. Ten books are catalogued under the name between To Ride Pegasus (1973) and Catacombs (2010), among them Pegasus in Flight and The Rowan, both 1990, then Damia (1991), Damia's Children (1993), Lyon's Pride (1994), The Tower and the Hive (1999) and Pegasus in Space (2000). Tower and Hive and Tales of the Barque Cats are the related series. Recorded subjects include telepathy, psychic ability, space colonies and cats.

How many The Talents books are there?

The Talents has 10 books, released between 1973 and 2010.

The Talents Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 The Talents books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey, book 1 of the Tower and Hive series (1990)
  2. Cover of Damia by Anne McCaffrey, book 2 of the Tower and Hive series (1991)
  3. Cover of Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey, book 3 of the Tower and Hive series (1993)
  4. Cover of Lyon's Pride by Anne McCaffrey, book 4 of the Tower and Hive series (1994)
  5. Cover of The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey, book 5 of the Tower and Hive series (1999)
  6. Cover of Pegasus in Space by Anne McCaffrey, book 3 of the Talent series (2000)
  7. Cover of Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey, book 1 of the Tales of the Barque Cats series (2009)
  8. Cover of Catacombs by Anne McCaffrey, book 2 of the Tales of the Barque Cats series (2010)
  1. 1
    To Ride PegasusTalent #11973 · confirmed 3/4
    1973–
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  2. 2
    The RowanTower and Hive #11990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  3. 3
    Pegasus in FlightTalent #21990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  4. 4
    DamiaTower and Hive #21991 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1991384
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  5. 5
    Damia's ChildrenTower and Hive #31993 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993336
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  6. 6
    Lyon's PrideTower and Hive #41994 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994288
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  7. 7
    The Tower and the HiveTower and Hive #51999 · 302 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999302
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  8. 8
    Pegasus in SpaceTalent #32000 · 434 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000434
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  9. 9
    CatalystTales of the Barque Cats #12009 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009256
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  10. 10
    CatacombsTales of the Barque Cats #22010 · 236 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010236
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Do you have to read The Talents books in order?

You should read the The Talents books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each The Talents book also stands alone.

Where to start with The Talents

Start with To Ride Pegasus (1973), the earliest published title.

What is the newest The Talents book?

Catacombs (2010) is the newest The Talents book released so far.

Is there a new The Talents book coming?

No next The Talents book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Award nominations for The Talents

Wikidata records 1 nomination for The Talents. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

The Talents at a glance

No recent titles
The newest The Talents title on record dates from 2010, 16 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
The Talents books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,236 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 302 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most The Talents books, 6 of 10, were published in the 1990s.

What the The Talents books are about

All 10 The Talents books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 10 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Anne McCaffrey

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.