Anne McCaffrey - Tower & Hive 1 - The Rowan

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out the rest of the Rowan mining community.Every Altarian who

was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help,

but no one knew exactly where she was buried.

Every resource on the planet was centred into finding 'The Rowan'

the new Prime,the first ever to be born on Altair,an exceptionally

unique Prime,more talented,more powerful,more agoraphobic,more

lonely,than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League.

Born on April 1st, Anne McCaffrey has

tried to live up to he auspicious natal day. Her first novel was

created in Latin class an~ might have brought her instant fame, as well

as an A, had sh~ written in that ancient language. Much chastened, she

turned t' the stage and became a character actress, appearing in the

first successful summer music circus in Lambertsville, New Jersey. She

studied music for nine years and, during that time, becam~ intensely

interested in the stage direction of opera and operetta ending that

phase of her experience with the stage direction of the American

premiere of Carl Orff's Ludus De Nato Infante Mirificu.

in which she also played a witch.

By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortable~ in

leading science fiction writers, she has won both the Hugo and Nebula

Awards, the E.E. 'Doe' Smith the Golden Pen, and has been seven

times a

winner of the Scienc' Fiction Book Club Award.

Between her appearances in the States, England, Europe Australia,

New Zealand and Alaska as a lecturer in seconder, schools and

universities, and guest-of-honour at science fictior conventions, Ms

McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design Dragonhold-Underhill

(because she had to dig out a hill on he, farm to build it) in County

Wicklow, Ireland. She runs a privat livery stable and her

three-day-event horses have been successful in international

competitions. She does not do the competition riding, she hastens to

add, but enjoys the success of horse and ride, and the occasional

canter on her favourite mount, a black and white mare named Pi.

Of herself, Ms McCaffrey warns: 'My eyes are green, my hair is

silver and I freckle; the rest is still subject to change without

notice.' Ms McCaffrey graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College

majoring in the Slavonic Languages and Literatures.

Anne McCaffrey's books can be read individually or as series

OF PERN NERILKA'S STORY

and THE COELURf DRAGONSDAWN THE RENEGADES OF PERN

ALL THE WEYRS OF PERN

CHRONICLES OF PERN: FIRST FALL.

Crystal Singer Books THE CRYSTAL SINGEr KILLASHANDRA

CRYSTAL LINE

Talent Series TO RIDE PEGASUS PEGASUS IN FLIGHT

Tower and the Hive series

THE ROWAN DAMIA DAMIA'S CHILDREN Lyon's Pride

Individual Titles

RESTOREE DECISION AT DOONA THE SHIP WHO SANG Written

collaboration with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough POWERS THAT BE

POWER

LINES* POWER PLAY

THe ROWAN

identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance

with Sections 77 and 78

of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Conditions of sale 1. This book is sold subject to the condition

that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold,

hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other

than that in which it is published and without a similar condition

including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

2. This book is sold subject to the Standard Conditions of Sale of

Net Books and may not be re-sold in the UK below the net price fixed by

the publishers for the book.

Corgi Books are published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, 61-63

Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5 5SA in Australia by Transworld

Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd 15-25 Helles Avenue, Moorebank, NSW

2170, and in New Zealand by Transworld Publishers (NZ) Ltd, William

PickerinY Drive. Albanv. Auckland.

Respectfully dedicated to fay A. Katz because we enjoy a meeting

of minds (well. most of the time)

disarmament and monitoring processes, thwarting many attempts to

subvert the program. Many Talents lost their lives to secure the world

peace which enabled humans to turn their energies and hopes to space

exploration.

More Talents were mustered to colonize this solar system and to

bridge the gap between this and other systems with habitable planets

When young Peter Reidinger made the first mind machine gestalt,

pushing

a light spacecraft by telekinesis from orbit to Mars, a new era dawned

for the parapsychic Talents in which they found themselves celebrated

instead of shunned, admired instead of feared, and necessary to every

aspect of the surge forward from the crowded and resources-poor

planet

Earth.

To extend the interstellar gestalt, special installations were

built for the Talents, terraformed habitations on Earth's Moon, Mars's

Demos, and on Jupiter's Callisto From these stations were kinetically

launched the great survey and exploration ships that colonized the nine

stars that had G-type planets, suitable for humans.

Though the Talents abhorred notoriety and opted for political

neutrality, it was inevitable that their abilities should contribute to

For those potential few, the training was arduous; the rewards did

not always compensate Talent for the unswerving dedication required

their taxing positions.

PART ONE ALTAIR

Torrents of rain covered the western side of the great Tranh

mountain range of Altair, streaming in muddy runnels down slopes

already saturated with nine days of steady precipitation. The sturdy

minta trees were bloated and their root systems bulging to the surface,

adding the slime of their overload of sap to the rivulets which

increasingly dislodged the shallower root systems of the few brush

varieties that could flourish in such rocky soil.

Little brooks matured into streams, then rivers, into cascades of

increasing volume and force, filling up blind canyons until such

deposits also overflowed. And the minta slime seemed to grease the

watery ways.

After seven people had slipped and broken bones on the main street

of the Rowan Mining Company's small settlement, the manager had or-

dered

In the same lugubrious vein, Met reports gave no hope of an

alteration in the deplorable conditions. The records show that, on the

tenth day, the mine's manager asked his home office in altair Port for

permission to evacuate all nonessential personnel until the weather

improved. His report pointed out that the accommodations were rather

primitive and had not been constructed with excessive rainfall in mind.

He cited an alarming number of respiratory ailments among his

people, almost epidemic in proportion. Enforced idleness and

substandard conditions had also seriously undermined morale. He put

an urgent order for pumps to drain the shafts when, and if, the rain

ever did stop.

The records showed that the directors debated withdrawal. That

particular installation of the Rowan Company was only just showing

some

profit which would be wiped out by the cost of a perhaps unnecessary

expense.

Meteorology was duly consulted and long-range satellite forecasts

indicated that the rains were to abate within the next seventy-two

hours, though arctic and antarctic pole conditions did not suggest any

break in generally overcast weather, much less sunny intervals, within

hopper to do necessary errands, to the small infirmary for medicine for

their sick, to the commissary for supplies. By the time the

instrumentation in Operations registered the incident, it was already

too late. The entire western face of the mintaclad slope was in

motion, like a tsunami of mud, rock, and pulpy vegetation. Those

outside saw their fate bearing down on them. Those inside their homes

mercifully were unaware. Only one, a child still in the hopper while

her mother carried her parcels quickly through the unabating rain to

the house, escaped the disaster.

The sturdy little hopper was borne up on the lip of the sludge

river, its ovoid shape an advantage, its heavy plastic hull slipping

over, under, and along the inexorable slide of heavy, wet mud. Its

occupant was bounced about, bruised, and knocked unconscious as the

hopper rolled and caught, was freed and carried over a precipice, its

fall cushioned by the mud that had preceded it. Nearly a hundred

kilometers from the Rowan camp, it became wedged on an outcropping,

covered by the vast river of sludge as the slide flowed on until its

impetus was dissipated into the long deep Oshoni valley.

The crying began sometime after the mud ceased its downward flow.

A pleading, quavering appeal to a mother who did not answer. An

announcement of hunger and hurt, sporadic at first, then increasingly

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outtherestoftheRowanminingcommunity.EveryAltarianwhowasevenmildlytalentedcould'hear'thechildcryingforhelp,butnooneknewexactlywhereshewasburied.Everyresourceontheplanetwascentredintofinding'TheRowan'thenewPrime,thefirstevertobebornonAltair,anexceptionallyuniquePrime,moretalented,morepowerful,moreagor...

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