Conference noted::sf

    
    Gleaned from the previous topic, I noticed the following books:
    
    	Pebble in the Sky by I. Asimov
    	Darkover Series by M.Z. Bradley
    	a couple of novels by A. McCafferty
    
    Additionally, I think the topic itself was opened before Ghostbusters.
    While it's main thrust was humor, it IS a film on the paranormal.
    
    Other books I've seen on the subject are Joan Vinge's Psion & Catspaw.
    Spider Robinson's "Telempathy" could also be included.
    
    Are there others that I've missed? I *love* this stuff, and would like
    to read more of it.

RE: .1    

>    	a couple of novels by A. McCafferty

Uh, I think you mean Anne McCaffrey.  She did the Dragonriders series which
had lots of inter-species telepathy, plus she did the Pegasus series of 
short stories (and later novels) dealing with telepathy, teleportation,
telekinesis, etc.

Additional ones that I enjoyed are:

	the Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust (telepathy, psychokinesis)
	Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke (the Massmind was certainly psi)
	the Dorsai series by Gordon Dickson (some psychokinesis, other mental
		abilities above normal)
	Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman (lots of inter-species telepathy)
	Time for the Stars by Robert Heinlein (instantaneous telepathy)
	the Dune series by Frank Herbert (telepathy, precognition, lots more)
	Copyright Violation by Spider Robinson (yes, the method is more
		technological than biological, but so what)
	the Lensmen series, Galaxy Primes, and Subspace Explorers/Encounter
		by E.E. Smith (galaxy spanning telepathy, perception, etc)
	the Warlock series by Christopher Stasheff (every psi ability you
		can think of and then some)

I am sure there are hundreds I have missed, but this is a decent start.

-- Ken Moreau

Julian May seems to favor psi stories.  The Pliocene Exile series
is based on psi, as is a two book series whose name escapes me, but
which is about the emergence of a generation of psi talented individuals.

   Gary

>Julian May seems to favor psi stories.  The Pliocene Exile series
>is based on psi, as is a two book series whose name escapes me, but
>which is about the emergence of a generation of psi talented individual

The Surveillance (sp?)
The Metaconcert 

Was this the series?



Also, telepathy was used a lot in early SF writings.  

	A. E. Nourse            PSI HIGH and other stories
	E. Russell		Sentinels From Space
	various Star Trek (old, new) episodes/books
	star wars series
	firestarter    (move)
	any 'ghost' type stories (Ghost, Poltergeist, etc)
	some Niven short stories based on the Thrint
	various Dr Who episodes/books
	Five Million Years to Earth  (movie)
	The Well World series of J. Chalker has some mention of this
	

-Joe

also:

	The People: No Different Flesh		Z. Henderson
	Pilgrimage: The Book Of The People	Z. Henderson
	movie called The Legacy
	Scanners movie series
	Trancers movie series (?)
	Blake's 7 (Cali was the resident telepath for some episodes)

-Joe

Firestarter (Movie & Book" - Steven King
Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card - "Seventh Son" was the first book

"The Masters of Solitude" and "Wintermind" by Marvin Kaye and Parke Godwin
have telepathy (called "lep" in the books) as an ability of the primitive
peoples locked out in the wilderness from the marvelous City into which all
the technological (and non-telepathic) peoples retreat in a future world.

"The Wall at the Edge of the World" by Jim Aiken (i think) is about the
negative consequences (rarely portrayed) of living in an all-telepathic
society.  Here the "mass mind" enables a static culture that stamps out any
nonconformists (including children born without the psi abilities).

								- paul

    Re .0:
    
    "Dowsing" is also sometimes called "Divination," if you want a more
    elegant name.  However, "Divination" is also used to refer to all forms
    of fortune-telling -- palmistry, horoscopes, tea-leaves, chicken
    entrails, cards, I Ching, You Ching, He/She/It Chings...
    
    "Witches of Karres" by James Schmidt is a psi-centered space opera.
    
    "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester is a psi-centered detective
    story.
    
    Larry Niven wrote several stories based on psi, including "World of
    Ptaavs" (a novel), and several short stories about a cop with a third
    "phantom arm," "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton," and "Patchwork Girl" (a
    Gil Hamilton novel).
    
    Ursula K. LeGuin's novels of the Ekumene feature telepathy and
    (marginally) precognition.  Several deal have "mindspeech," a form of
    telepathy that anyone can learn but no one can lie with -- "Rocannon's
    World," "The Left Hand of Darkness," "Exile Planet," "City of
    Illusions."  "Rocannon's World" also deals with the psychology of a
    fully telepathic race -- identity only exists on the community level.
    
    Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen co-authored a nice novel entitled
    "Coils" about a man with a psionic rapport for computers -- essentially
    an ability to plug into cyberspace without hardware interface.
    
    Earl Wajenberg

Add "The Stars My Destination" to "The Demolished Man" for Alfred Bester.

PeterT

re: .4

Yes, those are the May books I had in mind.  Thanks.

By the way, Asimov uses empathic abilities and the ability to 
influence emotions through almost the entire Foundation series, including
the Robot/Foundation crossover books.  Pebble in the Sky, if I recall
correctly, just happens to fit into this Universe.

   Gary

Daniel Keyes Moran End of Time series includes psi.
Thy are Emerald Eyes, The Long Run and the Last Dancer (Just came out this
month)

Shane

    A strong second on "The Witches of Karres," and on McCaffrey's dragon
    books; I liked her "Rowan" characters when they first showed up in
    short stories, but didn't get involved with the novel(s). ["The Ship
    Who Sang" isn't really about psi, as there's supposedly a scientific
    basis to the human/machine hookup; same with Delaney's "Nova". But I'd
    recommend both books anyway. ;-)]
    
    King's "Firestarter" and "The Dead Zone" both deal with some of the
    less appealling aspects of psi powers; "The Shining" touches on the
    subject, but it isn't as much of a plot element as it is in the other
    two books.
    
    There's a wonderful short story (whose author I cannot remember at
    present) called "The Game of Rat and Dragon"; I've got it in a couple
    of anthologies, including, I think, "Magicats!" It's about a
    space-faring civilization in which bizarre, "hyperspace" monsters
    are fought by human-and-cat psi teams, to protect the spaceways. The
    differences between the ways humans see things and the way cats do is
    entertaining. Not an in-depth look at psi, but a fun read. [Another
    story in the "Magicats" collection is Fritz Leiber's "Space-Time for
    Springers," which stars a kitten who might be psionic - although one
    could just as easily read it as magic, I suppose.]
    
    I'm sure I'm forgetting some obvious ones; if they pop to mind at 3
    a.m. I may log in and enter them. ;-)
    
    -b

    "The Game of Rat and Dragon" is by Cordwainer Smith.
    
    Earl Wajenberg

re: .0

Psi is one of THE most common elements of SF stories, ranking right up there
with space travel (FTL or not) and BEM.  It ranks from a central theme
(the Mule in the Foundation trilogy) to incidental (Niven's rationale 
for needing humans or other sentients to fly FTL in Known Space).
There can be no categorization psi in SF that doesn't try to gauge how 
important psi is to plot.
Do you have some particular aspect of psi application in mind?
(Incidentally, Stephen Kallis's list of psi  categorization
is extremely brief - there are a lot of other aspects of psi that
some writers/researchers categorize.)

- tom]

    
    In addition to all previously listed:
    The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card -- involving
    a character with psi abilities and his descendents
    whose psi abilities become more and more powerful.
       
    I like these kinds of stories too.
    
    
    -EG  

    
    		A couple more books would be
    
    			Jack Of Eagles by James Blish ( bit technical	
    					but he knows his stuff)
    			Masters Of Space by EE "Doc" Smith
    
    			
    				regards
    				Mike N. 

Has anyone seen the film "Scanner Cop"? I saw a video promo for it the other 
day. It looks as though it's a sequel to "Scanners" from umpty years ago 
(loved that dialin to blow up m/c room scene!)

Chele

    
    	There was already a sequel done.
    
    	This could be Part III.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    There's already a III - this would be a IV :-)