Pegasus in Flight continues the story of the Talented. Their skills are respected by some, but still feared by others. And now a young boy has discovered how to create a gestalt with a generator, greatly increasing his gift.

Young Peter was paralyzed when a wall fell on him. In coping with his exercises to see if he can regain any control, he learns how to use a generator. He goes out of body and meets Rhyssa Owen, the head of the Parapsychic Center.

Rhyssa is facing problems of her own. Barchenka, the engineer in charge of building the space station Padrugoi, is determined to conscript kinetics to help her complete the station, but without giving them the things they need to cope with the background noise and difficulty of working in space. Barchenka is ruthless, and has been hiding some grusome statistics on how many "grunts" die while working on building the station because she has no interest in protecting them. There are always more available, after all.

There's a darker side to society as well. Tirla, a young girl with a Talent for languages, lives in a Linear and is aware of the trade in children both for organ farms and as prostitutes. She narrowly avoids capture on her own, and comes to the attention of the Parapsychic Center. As an illegal child, she has had no rights as she understood them. However, as the only living child of her mother (her mother sold the rest), the Parapsychic Center has the clout to make her legal.

Between Barchenka and the underground trade in children, Rhyssa has her hands full. Coping with these two young Talents takes up a great deal of time, and falls to Dorotea Horvath, who was seen in To Ride Pegasus as a baby.

When the other kinetics are finally sent to Padrogoi, Peter's unique gift becomes vital as he takes on many of the emergency duties the other kinetics would have had to perform. He is underage, and so his work is not publicized.

All in all, this was one of the better books of the series. Not the best of them, but far from the worst.