Ann Wilson 3 hr 47 min read

In a galaxy-spanning Terran Empire, a devastating alien Talent surfaces on the wrong world at the worst time.

Ann Wilson's 1992 novel opens with the alien Thark racing to reach a doomed young human Talent, Corina Losinj, as Imperial politics and clashing loyalties threaten to cost her life. A later, fan-beloved entry in a sprawling original space-opera universe of psychic Talents and interstellar empire. Read it for character-driven military space opera with a deeply worked-out future and real emotional stakes.

In its time

Published in 1992, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

3 hr 47 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).