YMMV / To Ride Pegasus

• Fridge Horror: In Pegasus In Space, there's a scene where Peter frantically 'paths Johnny for advice because one of the nurses is giving him an unwanted and unneeded bath (essentially she's trying to seduce him). Johnny tells him to dump the nurse and the bathwater outside and go back to sleep, which Peter does; afterwards, the nurse is regarded as a minor irritation that doesn't last long. However, if Peter wasn't psychic, he'd have essentially been stuck at that nurse's mercy.
• Genius Bonus: Peter's natural key is C major. C major is the only major key that does not have any accidentals (essentially, it only uses the white keys on the piano). This reflects Peter's straightfowardness and aversion to moral grey areas.
• Harsherin Hindsight: Tying in with its theme of achieving the supposedly-impossible (and to honour his contributions to the perception of quadriplegics), Pegasus in Space is dedicated to Christopher Reeve with the hope that he would reach his goal of walking again by 2002. While he experienced some minor improvements, Reeve died in 2004 still paralysed from the neck down.
• Hilariousin Hindsight: The Earth's space-exploration organisation is named SpaceForce, which in 2019 (to some derision) became the official name of the United States military branch that is dedicated to Space exploration.
• Nightmare Fuel: Ludmilla Barchenka's saving ways, like giving her grunt workers only enough air for their shift, with nothing left over; dispensing with safety lines; giving them only short-range com units so if someone gets in trouble, all the workers can't hear them screaming for help; and worst of all, if a grunt accidentally ends up flying off into space, she'll only try to rescue them after the shift is over... if there's a ship available. And if they know where the grunt is.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Talent-phobia (or nervousness around the Talented) is often portrayed as a flaw and indicator of intolerance. On the other hand, the characters casually listen in to each other's private conversations with seemingly no concept of privacy. Even worse, Peter at one point almost mind rapes an unTalented acquaintance— and that's completely by accident! To top it off, the Talented themselves are often at best Innocently Insensitive towards the unTalented and at worst condescending and derogatory. Talent-phobia may not be entirely justified, but it sure is sympathetic.
• Values Dissonance: While the relationship between Sascha and Tirla is controversial even in-story, it would likely be considered completely taboo today. An abused twelve-year-old from an unstable home jumping into a relationship with the first person who shows her affection, and that person is in his thirties and knows their relationship is morally ambiguous? Instead of romantic, present day readers might classify the pairing as the result of grooming, unbalanced power dynamics, or emotional manipulation.