Author:Anne McCaffrey
Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: telepathy and tele kinetics. Worlds where amazing gifts can lead to power and persecution. Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams.
'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES
'Wonderful' -- ***** Reader review
'Uplifting and inspiring' -- ***** Reader review
'Totally gripped me' -- ***** Reader review
'There is only one word for this - AMAZING!' -- ***** Reader review
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Peter Reidinger was the most brilliant and powerful telepath and telekinetic yet discovered on earth.He was also barely fifteen years old who 'moved' his body through kinesis. When the telepaths of earth suspected a plot to take over Padrugoi, the newly manned space station, they realised they needed his unique gifts to foil the insane plans of Barchenka, the space construction manager, but even they didn't realise how strong were his abilities to 'read' the minds of those about him and move heavy loads over vast distances.
As his career progressed, so his talents increased beyond the dreams of those trying to reach out into space. Peter Reidinger was going to be the salvation of man's exploration of the stars.
And even as he became the most important man on earth, so his friendship with the tiny orphan girl found in the floods of Bangladesh grew and flourished. For Amariyah too had psychic gifts which no-one, at first, could define.
But these 'special' people were constantly at risk - hated and feared by the avaricious, the evil and the ignorant, whose constant ambition was to destroy Peter Reidinger and those like him.
The ghost of Mark Twain is evoked in this outstanding collection of essays
—— Sunday TimesPulphead is a big, fat, frequently exhilarating collection
—— GuardianPulphead has a ramshackle loquacity, a down-home hyper-eloquence and an off-the-wallishness that is quite distinct - and highly addictive
—— Goeff DyerThe best, and most important collection of magazine writing since David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
—— New York Times Book ReviewFrom prehistoric caves to Axl Rose's oxygen chamber, Sullivan's generous, witty voice lights up every page
—— Joe DunthorneThe most involving collection of essays to appear in many a year
—— Harper's BaazarI was totally blown away by this collection of the new new new journalism, or however many "news" we’re up to these days. I think I like it as much – at times, even more – than Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again. And that, for me, is saying a lot
—— (interview with) Zadie Smith , Foyles websiteThe best non-fiction... whether he’s writing about the southern literary tradition or smoking pot in Disneyland, the man is astute, funny and wonderful company
—— Nick Laird , GuardianThe essay collection continues to thrive; of the many I came across this year, the best ... [included] Pulphead
—— Leo Robson , New StatesmanMagnificent ... elegant, engaged and full of feeling... I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve pressed it on
—— Olivia Laing , New StatesmanProof of the power of non-fiction to defamiliarise the ordinary and familiarise the strange... a Cadillac-on-the-freeway tour of Americana
—— Talitha Stevenson , New StatesmanPulls off quite a trick ... he mines the residual weirdness and oddities of the “other side of America” without ever condescending to his subjects
—— Jonathan Derbyshire , New StatesmanSlangy, reported, in the moment... a collection of smart and fizzy magazine pieces
—— Sam Leith , ProspectOf these essays I really, really liked the one on Michael Jackson... Sullivan tells us more interesting stuff in this one essay than everything else I’ve read put together... Sullivan tries to understand the way Jackson thought
—— William Leith , SpectatorSimultaneously folksy, modern, curious, confiding and rigorously intellectual
—— Tom Cox , Sunday TimesThe Southern editor of the Paris Review can write as scintillatingly about the tea party, Michael Jackson or Hurricane Katrina as he can about rare Southern folk blues or American reality television
—— The EconomistOf these essays, I really, really liked the one on Michael Jackson. Sullivan tells us more interesting stuff in this one essay than everything else I’ve read put together - the ancestors who were slaves, the scandals, the voice, the way he composed music; Sullivan tries to understand the way Jackson thought
—— William Leith , SpectatorJim is such a likeable character, unflinchingly recounting in all his worst failures and humiliations
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayA funny, wryly observed coming-of-age novel, it will strike a chord with anyone who grew up during the Noughties. It’s full of quirky period details and Jim is an engaging narrator
—— Mail on Sunday
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