Pegasus in Space
by Anne McCaffrey
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Author: Anne McCaffreyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-27
ISBN: 0345434676
Number of pages: 434
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: A bit slower than the two other Pegasus books...
Summary: 3 Stars
Pegasus in Space is a nice cap to the trilogy-so-far of the Pegasus Talents books, but it lacks a little in overall plot and intrest--the previous two books, To Ride Peagsus and Pegasus in Flight, are quite a bit better. Pegasus in Space did a good job of finishing all the previous character's stories, and it was a very interesting prequel to The Rowan Talents books--it and its two mates set up the situation in The Rowan and onward books quite nicely--showing the origins of Talent and, in Pegasus in Space, the origin of FT&T. But besides finishing up the trilogy and setting the stage for later books, it was pretty lacking. First of all, Pegasus in Space starts out making a very big deal about Amariyah--but never finishes it. She's this phenominal healer Talent, but the only mention of her after the age of 13 is such an "oh, and by the way" deal that it leaves one a little confused, after all the hype about her in the first part of the book. Then, in the middle of the book, Anne McCaffrey switches into heavy *heavy* sci-fi mode with all her descriptions of space walking and shuttle launching, etc. For a person like myself--a lover of sci-fi/fantasy, but not a die-hard sci-fi reader--it got quite boring and monotonus. And the whole book was mainly about one chracter--Peter Reidinger. Not that a story is not allowed to have a main character, but after the previous two books, which were both relatively oligarchal as far as characters went, it was quite a change. Seemed a bit of an overkill on Peter. The whole book was about his obsession with space. Like I said, it's a nice setup for The Rowan, but it was very overkill. And the only "bad guys" were a weak resurrection of Pegasus in Flight's main villians. It was nice to know what happened to all the characters from the previous two books, but they all paled in comparison to Peter's role in the book, and only got brief mentions and were reverted to completely two-dimensional personalites. Without the previous books, the accessory characters would have been totally lost. Overall, it was pretty enjoyable, with the happily ever after ending and the little dip into romance that Anne McCaffrey never fails to make in all of her books, but it lacked in comparison to the two previous books in the Pegasus trilogy. And it especially lacks if one chooses to comapre it to the Dragonriders of Pern books--which are all awesome novels, true masterpieces by Anne McCaffrey. Pegasus in Space seemed a little forced, as if the author had just wanted to get the story done, rather than enjoy it. But even for all its faults, it deserves three-stars, because it *was* good and because, of course, nearly everything Anne McCaffrey touches is golden. Pretty good, but most certainly not the best.
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