• The Telepath as Superman/ Next Stage
• The Telepath in Society
• What Telepathy Feels Like from Inside
• Pre-Cognition
• Authors Who Build Extensive Series and Worlds Based on Telepathy
• Criticism on Psionics

• Stapeldon, Olaf. Odd John (1935)

• Van Vogt, A. E. Slan (1940) --New member of a mutant race is persecuted by humans

• Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood' s End (1953) --Humans are shepherded to the next stage in cosmic evolution

• Sturgeon, Theodore. More Than Human (1953) --Formation of homo gestalt from union of various outcasts

• Constantine, Storm. The Book of Wraeththu: Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987), The Bewitchments of ove and Hate (1988), The Fulfillments of fate and Desire (1989) -- mutant, telepathic hermaphrodites begin to create new gothic-punk culture
Brunner, John. Children of Thunder (1988) -- Children with new talents may save a chaotic world

• Schmitz, James H. The Witches of Karres (1949) -- Society based on mystic psi powers produces precocious children who kidnap a space captain and his ship

• Bester, Alfred. The Demolished Man (1953; winner of first Hugo) -- Murder is hard to accomplish in a world policed by telepaths

• ---. The Stars My Destination (1956) -- Marooned in space, Gully Foyle manages to teleport himself to safety, thus opening up the possibilities for many new markets

• Tucker, Wilson. Wild Talent (1954) -- Espers used by the FBI

• Heinlein, Robert. Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) -- Human comes back from Mars having been taught psi powers and shares them with other humans

• Henderson, Zenna. Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) The People: No Different Flesh (1967) -- Collection of short stories about genial humanoid aliens who live quietly among us, hiding their telepathic powers

• Schmitz, James H. Telezy Amberdon Series: The Universe Against Her (1964), The Telzey Toy (1975), The Lion Game (1975)-- Young girl with telepathic affinity for animals recruited as a government agent

• Delany, Samuel. Babel-17 (1966) -- Spaceship flown by telepathic bond

• LeGuin, Ursula. Three Hanish Novels: Rocannon' s World (1966), Planet of Exile(1966), City of Illusions (1967) -- Human colonist learns Mindspeech, then must deal with aliens capable of telepathic lying

• Butler, Octavia. Patternist Series: Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind (1977) -- Future telepathic society, not always utopian

• Sargent, Pamela. Watchstar (1980) --Post-holocaust, pastoral world where telepathy replaces technology

• Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead (1986) -- Ender Wiggin in telepathic contact with hive mind of the species humans destroyed in previous book

• Aiken, Jim. The Wall at the Edge of the World (1993) -- A society of telepaths has put up walls to protect themselves from the chaos Outside.

• Cherryh, C. J. Rider at the Gate (1995) and Cloud' s Rider (1996) -- Colonists on a world whose organisms are telepathically linked are befriended by horselike telepaths

What Telepathy Feels Like from Inside

• Lindsay, David. Voyage to Arcturus (1920) -- Early and very weird story of psychic traveler who develops new organ

• Blish, James. Jack of Eagles (1952) --

• Brunner, John, The Whole Man (1964)

• Harness, Charles, "The Rose " (1966)

• Zelazny, Roger. "He Who Shapes " (1966)

• Russ, Joanna And Chaos Died (1970)

• DelRey, Lester. Pstalemate (1971)

• Silverberg, Robert. Dying Inside (1972) -- What it feels like to loose telepathic senses

• Varley, John. "The Persistence of Vision " (1978) --Award-winning novella about giving up sight for telepathy

• Vinge, Joan. Psion (1988), Catspaw (1989) -- Classic adolescent Bildungsroman

Pre-Cognition

• Dick, Philip K. The World Jones Made (1965)

• Herbert, Frank. Dune (1965)

• Silverberg, Robert. The Stochastic Man (1975)

Authors Who Build Extensive Series and Worlds Based on Telepathy

Bradley, Marion Zimmer

DARKOVER SERIES -- Colonists interbreed with natives, establish culture based on telepathic gifts; then confront Earth' s technology again.  List follows chronology of internal sequence.

• Darkover Landfall 1972
• Stormqueen! 1978
• Hawkmistress! 1982
• Two to Conquer 1980
• The Heirs of Hammerfell 1989
• The Shattered Chain (Part I) 1976
• Rediscovery (wi Mercedes Lackey) 1993
• The Spell Sword 1974
• The Forbidden Tower 1977
• The Shattered Chain (Part II) 1976
• Thendara House 1983
• City of Sorcery 1984
• Star of Danger 1965
• The Winds of Darkover 1970
• The Bloody Sun 1964/1979
• Planet Savers 1962
• The Heritage of Hastur 1975
• Sword of Aldones 1962
• Sharra's Exile 1981
• The World Wreckers 1971
• Exile' s Song 1996

McCaffrey, Anne.
PEGASUS SERIES -- Short stories about the establishment of a telepath' s guild

• To Ride Pegasus
• Pegasus in Flight

• Dragonseye (DRP) 1997 -- early days of Pern, to the second fall of Thread
• Dragonflight (DRP) 1968
• Dragonquest (DRP) 1971
• Dragonsong (HH) 1976
• Dragonsinger (HH) 1977
• Dragondrums (HH) 1979
• The White Dragon (DRP) 1978
• Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (DRP) 1983
• Nerilka's Story (DRP) 1986
• Dragonsdawn (DRP) 1988
• The Renegades of Pern (DRP) 1989
• All the Weyrs of Pern (DRP) 1992
• The Chronicles of Pern : First Fall 1994 -- short stories
• The Dolphins of Pern (DRP) 1994 --About a decade after the events of All the Weyrs of Pern. Two boys, one a dragonrider, reestablish crucial contact with the sapient dolphins--the legendary "shipfish"--of Pern.

• The Rowan 1991
• Damia 1993
• Lyon' s Pride 1995 -- The Rowan's descendants combine forces to face once and for all the threat of the alien Hivers
• Damia' s Children 1996 --The children of the legendary Damia are coming of age and learning to master their own remarkable powers of telepathy. Each has a special Talent, and their combined abilities are even greater than those of their powerful mother. Now they must face the next generation of their enemy--an alien race more insect than human.

Norton Andre

SHAN LANTEE/WARLOCK/Forerunner
• Storm Over Warlock (SL1) 1960
• Ordeal in Otherwhere (SL2) 1964
• Forerunner Foray (SL3/FR1) 1973
• Forerunner (FR2) 1981
• Forerunner: the Second Venture (FR3) 1985
HOLSTEEN STORM/ BEAST MASTER
• The Beast Master (HS1) 1959
• Lord of Thunder (HS2) 1962
WITCH WORLD
• Witch World (WW1) 1963
• Web of the Witch World (WW2) 1964
• Three Against Witch World (WW3) 1965
• Year of the Unicorn (WW4) 1965
• Warlock of the Witch World (WW5) 1967
• Sorceress of the Witch World (WW6) 1968
• The Crystal Gryphon (WW7) 1972
• Spell of the Witch World (WW8) 1972
• Jargoon Pard (WW9) 1974
• Trey of Swords (WW10) 1977
• Zarsthor's Bane (WW11) 1978
• Lore of the Witchworld (WW12) 1980
• Gryphon in Glory (WW13?) 1981
• Horn Crown (WW 13/14) 1981
• 'Ware Hawk (WW15) 1983
• Gryphon' s Eyrie (wi A.C. Crispin) (WW16) 1984
• The Gate of the Cat (WW17) 1987
• Tales of The Witch World 1 (ss) 1987}
• Tales of The Witch World 2 (ss) 1988}
• Storms of Victory (wi P.M. Griffin) (WW: The Turning 1) 1991
• Flight of Vengeance (wi PM Griffin )(WW: The Turning 2) 1992
• Songsmith : A Witch World Novel 1992
• (With A.C. Crispin)The Key of the Keplian (Secrets of the Witch World 1) 1995
• With Lyn McConchie The Magestone (Secrets of the Witch World 2) 1995
• With Mary H. Schaub On Wings of Magic (Witch World : The Turning, Book 3) 1995
• With Patricia Mathews, Sasha Miller The Warding of Witch World (Secrets of the Witch World 3) 1996

Critical Works on Psionics

• Godshalk,-William-L. " Alfred Bester: Science Fiction or Fantasy? " Extrapolation, 16, 149-55
• Lowentrout,-Peter-M. "PsiFi: The Domestication of Psi in Science Fiction. " Extrapolation 30:4 (1989 Winter), 388-400.
• Pierce, John. "Psi-Fi " Great Themes of Science Fiction. Greenwood Popular Press, 1987.., pp. 55-62.
• Stone-Blackburn,-Susan. " Adult Telepathy: Babel-17 and The Left Hand of Darkness." Extrapolation 30:3 (1989 Fall), 243-253.
• Stone-Blackburn,-Susan. " Consciousness Evolution and Early Telepathic Tales. " Science-Fiction-Studies. 20:2 (60) 1993 July,, 241-50 About 19th uses of telepathy in Bulwer Lytton etc.

 

 

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