History Literature / TowerAndTheHive

* Omniglot: Tirla's psychic powers make her this.

* ''To Ride Pegasus'': The series itself got its start with the 1973 publishing of ''Pegasus'', in which the existence of psychic powers were scientifically proven and psychics began organizing to both take care of their own and carve out a place for themselves in society.

An earlier short story, ''The Lady In The Tower'' (from the collection '"Get Off The Unicorn'') contains many elements of the what would become the Talents universe, but isn't universally considered part of it.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Damia is was [[spoiler:accidentally burning out the mind of her first lover,]] partially from inexperience, and partially because she ignored Afra's advice to "be careful" out of spite (She assumed he meant "birth control"; he meant [[spoiler:"keep your mental shields up or you'll fry the boy."]])

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and learns her real name[[hottip:*:Angharad Gwyn]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan".

''The Tower and the Hive'' series (also known as the ''Rowan and the Talents'' series) is a sci-fi series by AnneMcCaffrey.

* MindOverManners: An essential part of the Talents' culture.

* PowerLevels: The Talents are ranked in power from T12 (just enough power to register) to Prime (Off the charts). T1 is technically as high as the scale goes, but Primes register that high in multiple aspects of their powers. (Someone who has T1-level telepathy but no telekinesis would not qualify to for the Prime designation).

* WifeHusbandry: Damia and Afra, Sascha and Tirla.

* NextSundayAD: The setting of ''To Ride Pegasus.''

* ''To Ride Pegasus'': The series itself got its start with the 1973 publishing of ''Pegasus'', in which the existence of psychic powers were scientificly proven and psychics began organizing to both take care of their own and carve out a place for themselves in society.

* BrownNote: Any Talent in proximity to anything Hiver-made experience a sensation known as "sting-pzzt", which makes them edgy and irritable.

* DiplomaticImpunity: invoked by the BigBad of ''Pegaus In Flight''. Unfortunately for him, his boss got the whole story and pulled the rug out from under him.

* WifeHusbandry: Damia and Afra.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: How the Hiver threat is ultimately dealt with[[hottip:*:Not so much MindRape as introducing them to a pheromone cocktail that turns them from TheSwarm to peaceful agrarians]].

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: How the Hiver threat is ultimately dealt with[[hottip:*:Not so much MindRape as introducing them to a pheromone cocktail that turns them from The Borg to peaceful agrarians]].

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: How the Hiver threat is ultimately dealt with[[hottip:*:Not so much MindRape as introducing them to a pheromone cocktail that turns them from [[TheSwarm The Borg]] to peaceful agrarians]].

* KryptoniteFactor: For all the power of a Prime, they're unable to travel through space without suffering Travel Sickness - vertigo so bad it requires hospitalization. [[YourMindMakesItReal Or so they thought.]]

* KryptoniteFactor: For all the power of a Prime, they're unable to travel through space without suffering horrible vertigo-induced sickness. [[YourMindMakesItReal Or so they thought.]]

* IfICantHaveYou: The psychic entity trying to seduce Damia[[hottip:*:in order to find out about the human system's defenses and weaken their most powerful one - her]] used the last of the strength to try and kill Damia after he'd picked up on Afra's feelings for her. It should be noted that Afra, Damia's parents and Damia's brother Larak were currently trying to destroy It at the time. [[spoiler: He ended up killing Larak.]]

* ''To Ride Pegasus'' and ''Pegasus In Space'': Direct sequels to ''To Ride Pegasus'' meant to officially [[ArcWelding merge]] the Pegasus storyline with that of the Talents.

The Tower and the Hive series (also known as the Rowan and the Talents series) is a sci-fi series by AnneMcCaffrey.

The Talents series contains examples of the following tropes:

* TheAce: Jeff Raven

* DaChief: Peter Reidinger
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Laria]]

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Subverted - ''No one'' thinks giving The Rowan to Siglen to be trained as a Prime is the best idea - Siglen is a great Prime but horrible person. But there's no one else on the planet qualified to teach her and sending her elsewhere would do more harm than good, thanks to Travel Sickness.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The Talents

* IfItsYouItsOkay: Gay Kinkaid sleeping with his straight best friend, Laria, because they were both lonely and hurting over bad breakups.
** AliensMadeThemDoIt: Turns out their Mrdini companions mentally "nudged" them towards each other. They didn't really mind.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Siglen
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and learns her real name[[hottip:*:Angharad Gwyn]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan"

* PowerLevels: The Talents are ranked in power from T12 (just enough power to register) to Prime (Off the charts).
** It should be noted that T1 is technically as high as the scale goes, but Primes register that high in multiple aspects of their powers. (Someone who has T1-level telepathy but no telekinesis would not qualify to for the Prime designation).

* YourMindMakesItReal: The Prime's travel sickness was actually Siglen mentally imprinting her own condition on every other Prime of the time (At the time four others). Because it had to be simply "the cost of power" and not something as mundane as an inner-ear condition.

* ''The Tower and The Hive'': The wrap-up to the threat of the Hivers (and probably the series, itself after [[AuthorExistenceFailure McCaffery's death]])* ''To Ride Pegasus'' and ''Pegasus In Space'': Direct sequels to ''To Ride Pegasus'' meant to officially [[ArcWelding merge]] the Pegasus storyline with that of the Talents.

The Tower and the Hive series (also known as the Rowan and the Talents series) is a sci-fi series by AnneMcCaffery.

* ''The Rowan'': The series as most know it started here, with the story of The Rowan, an orphaned Prime Talent, as she deals with life, lonlieness and a possible alien invasion.

An earlier short story, ''The Lady In The Tower'' (from the collection '"Get Off The Unicorn'') contains many elements of the what would become the Talents universe, but isn't universially considered part of it.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: How the Hiver threat is ultimately dealt with[[hottip:*:Not so much MindRape as introducing them to a phermone cocktail that turns them from [[TheSwarm The Borg]] to peaceful agrarians]].

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Stock in trade for pregognitive Talents.

* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Not all, not even most, but a siginficant percentage.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Damia is was [[spoiler:accidentally burning out the mind of her first lover,]] partially from inexperience, and partially because she ignored Afra's advice to "be careful." (She thought he meant "birth control"; he meant [[spoiler:"keep your mental shields up or you'll fry the boy."]])

* SuddenlySexuality: The previously, explictly gay Kincaid becoming a couple with his female best friend, Laria.

* SuperPoweredGenetics: As Talents began producing offspring together, more and more powerful Talents came forth.

* ManditoryMotherhood: By the end of the series, the list of adult women who aren't mothers or expectant mothers is far far shorter than the list of those that are.

* OnlyKnowByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and learns her real name[[hottip:*:Angharad Gwyn]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan"

* SuperpoweredGenetics: As Talents began producing offspring together, more and more powerful Talents came forth.