History Literature / ToRidePegasus

* HeroesWantRedheads: Peter Reidinger develops a phobia of red-headed nurses after one [[RapeAsDrama attempts to seduce him]] in the hospital. [[spoiler: Later, he falls in love with a redheaded ''doctor''.]]

* MundaneUtility: Peter Reidinger discovers he has powers after becoming a quadriplegic at age thirteen; as a result he uses his "Talent" for ''everything'', including hiding the fact that he's doing it by puppeting his own inert body, which leads to some UncannyValley moments (as well as him ''literally'' levitating with enthusiasm early on when he forgets where his feet are in relation to the ground...)[[invoked]]

* {{Teleportation}}: One of the psychic abilities featured in the series. The basis of the humans' interstellar civilization in the later books is high-powered psychics teleporting objects, included spacecraft, across immense distances.

* PopulationControl: Used in ''Pegasus in Flight'', and it's an issue since Tirla was illegally born. Specifically, women who have more children than they are licensed to bear are sterilized, as are the resultant children. Illegals have all the rights of legals except the right to reproduce, but they're first in line for conscription to work on Padrugoi Space Station. Tirla escapes both fates with the aid of the Center, since she's Talented and assisted in shutting down a slaving ring.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Averted. The pronounciation of Amariyah's name (Am-ah-REE-ah) is repeatedly stated to prevent this in-universe. In later chapters she's mostly referred to as "Maree", with a spelling that better matches an English speaker's pronounciation tendencies.

* PopulationControl: Used in ''Pegasus in Flight'', and it's an issue since Tirla was illegally born. Specifically, women who have more children than they are licensed to bear are sterilized, as are the resultant children. It is explicitly stated that illegals have all the rights of legals except the right to reproduce.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Peter Reidinger develops a phobia of red-headed nurses after one attempts to seduce him in the hospital. [[spoiler: Later, he falls in love with another redheaded nurse.]]

* TimeSkip: Between ''To Ride Pegasus'' and ''Pegasus in Flight''. Dorotea Horvath, who was about five years old at the end of the former, is now at least eighty years old and a grandmother, and we also meet the children of other characters, like Daffyd's granddaughter Rhyssa, Bruce and Amalda's (probably) grand-daughter, who's named after her grand-mother, and Boris and Sascha Roznine, who are the (probably) grandsons of Vsevolod Roznine (the book never says exactly what the twins' relationship to Vsevolod is, nor Amalda junior's relationship to Bruce and Amalda senior).

* PopulationControl: Used in ''Pegasus in Flight'', and it's an issue since Tirla was illegally born.

* NeverSayDie: [[spoiler:Dorotea is suspiciously absent for the epilogue of ''Pegasus in Space'', and while there's no confirmation, the wording and Peter sadly remembering her congratulating him once strongly implies that she died of old age.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: In ''Pegasus in Space'', there's an unusual example of the prior BigBad being promoted to this. [[spoiler: Prince Shimaz is locked up on the Moon and isn't doing ''anything'', not even controlling his people. However, before his imprisonment, he issued a fatwa against Peter and Tirla. Peter's assailants have no central organization to speak of; Shimaz' family relations are simply attempting to carry out that fatwa on autopilot; Ponsit Prosit is part of one such plot because of his own grudge against Peter.]]

* MundaneUtility: Peter Reidinger discovers he has powers after becoming a quadriplegic at age thirteen; as a result he uses his "Talent" for ''everything'', including hiding the fact that he's doing it by puppeting his own inert body, which leads to some UncannyValley moments (as well as him ''literally'' levitating with enthusiasm early on when he forgets where his feet are in relation to the ground...)

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Parapsychic Center has little respect for the letter of the law when it comes to recruitment, though part of this is because a lot of psychics in the ''To Ride Pegasus'' era ended up in prisons or insane asylums because of their abilities, and they were often released into the Center's hands instead. Later, Tirla is retroactively made a legal citizen (in violation of PopulationControl - she's a third child) as part of her recruitment.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Peter Reidinger develops a phobia of red-headed nurses after one attempts to seduce him in the hospital. Later, he falls in love with another redheaded nurse.

* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: When told that, if he completes a course of physical therapy, he can have his surgery reversed and his waste bag removed, Peter is quite emphatic that he would "give anything to be able to pee and crap like an ordinary human being." In this case, his frankness is ''not'' a sign of immaturity; it's the farthest thing from it.

* PowerLevels: The Talents are ranked in power from T12 (just enough power to register) to Prime (T1). To have a T1 designation requires both telepathy and telekinesis with potentially unlimited power; a superpowerful telepath or telekinetic is rated at T2. It isn't a fixed designation, though: it's perfectly possible to increase one's Talent rating over time, especially if you're working closely with very powerful Talents.

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