The Tower and the Hive
Anne McCaffrey
Ace Books, May 2000
ISBN:0-441-00720-1
The long-awaited final volume in the New York Times bestselling Rowan saga.
For generations, the descendents of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their
various Talents to help mankind--some are powerful telepaths, others can teleport through space,
others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the
alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid
species that kills all life it finds.
Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the
treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much--especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair
share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered--that the Hivers should have been
exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.
The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that
newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances.
They are confident of success--if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at
destroying all they have worked for.
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