Damia's Children

McCaffrey, Anne. Damia's Children. New York: Ace-Putnam, [1993].

Sequel to The Rowan (1990) and Damia (1991 [so copyright on Bookcassette, q.v. under Drama] / 1992 [S. F. Book Club Edition]), moving the story into the third generation (and not completing the story, so the series can continue). DC features Talented (sic) young people with the Psi powers of telekenesis, telepathy, teleportation and such; the book is significant here because teleportation is done in a "gestalt" interface with power generators and because at least one of the Talented youngsters has a strong interest in engineering. The plot involves a war against Hive creatures (sic on the capital) with clear intent for intertextuality with R. A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (and note also Haldeman's Forever War and Orson Scott Card's Ender series]). (RDE, 22/08/93)