Message-ID: <781@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 16:14:19 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.781
Posted: Mon Feb 25 16:14:19 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 07:56:22 EST
Sender: !@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 5

From: Monique Barbancon 

         How about G.R.R Martin's "A song for Lya" ?
  It's a short story about two humans telepaths meeting an  
alien group mind entity. Definitely worth reading...

Message-ID: <800@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 17:21:36 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.800
Posted: Tue Feb 26 17:21:36 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Feb-85 20:12:39 EST
Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 26

From: Joel B. Levin 

I remember a story (but not its author or title) about a 'micro'-group
mind--a few individuals linked together, as opposed to a species-wide or
planet-wide group mind--in some collection I know I own but which is
buried in one of several boxes.  I am missing two digest issues (63 and
64), but otherwise I have not seen it mentioned.

The narrator is the personnel director of a large Hughes-like Defense
contractor.  He has an interest in psi abilities (without possessing any
himself) which gets him in trouble with his boss, and he is always being
pestered by a Col. Flagg type security officer.  This story is not the
first in the line: I read another a long time ago, and this story has
references to events probably contained in earlier stories.  A group of
five college grads come to see him; they are individuals but are linked
together and think of themselves as "George".  The narrator thinks they
are using a gimmick to attract his attention (finishing each others'
sentences seamlessly), but he hires them into different departments of
his company.  The company gets in trouble with DOD because "George"
expedites interdepartmental interactions and jobs start getting done
(gasp!) on time, and DOD wants to know why.

I would be interested to know the extent of this series and if it exists
in a single collection.

	/JBL

Message-ID: <4130@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:30:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.4130
Posted: Fri Mar  1 14:30:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:10:49 EST
References: <781@topaz.ARPA>
Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Lines: 7
Summary: 

I vaguely recall a story in which a group mind is formed when a retarded
farm hand meets up with a mongoloid child, a child with telekinetic
abilities and a pair of telepathic (naked) twins.  I may have some of the
details wrong, but surely someone remembers the details.  I think the
story is considered a "classic" - I certainly consider it so.

						-- Scott Turner

Message-ID: <225@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:02:19 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.225
Posted: Mon Mar  4 19:02:19 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:22:52 EST
References: <781@topaz.ARPA> <4130@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 11

***     AC  T              YOUR     AGE ***

I have read a book called "Mindbridge," By Hoe Haldeman.  It involved
a melding of minds via a telepathic alien that physically resembled
a wet sponge.

It was also one of the worst SF novels I've ever read in my life.
/_\_

				Bob Fishell
				ihnp4!ihlpg!fish

Message-ID: <898@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 11:25:50 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.898
Posted: Thu Mar  7 11:25:50 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 06:23:00 EST
Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 10

From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA

> I vaguely recall a story in which a group mind is formed when a
> retarded farm hand meets up with a mongoloid child, a child with
> telekinetic abilities and a pair of telepathic (naked) twins.

This is More than Human by Theo. Sturgeon, which I mentioned in regards
to group minds.

                                      - Brett Slocum

Message-ID: <203@zaphod.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 15:02:08 EST
Article-I.D.: zaphod.203
Posted: Fri Mar  8 15:02:08 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:33:48 EST
References: <781@topaz.ARPA> <4130@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Organization: Develcon Electronics, Saskatoon, SK
Lines: 26

> I vaguely recall a story in which a group mind is formed when a retarded
> farm hand meets up with a mongoloid child, a child with telekinetic
> abilities and a pair of telepathic (naked) twins.  I may have some of the
> details wrong, but surely someone remembers the details.  I think the
> story is considered a "classic" - I certainly consider it so.
> 
> 						-- Scott Turner

*** REFINE THIS MESSY PLACE WITH YOUR LOSSAGE ***

How classic was it? - Theodore Sturgeon almost made a career of this
concept.  You're right, it does sound familiar: I vaguely recall one
novel and some short stories from the man with this theme.  I have no
pointers, since I don't keep my SF collection in anything remotely
resembling Dewey Decimal notation, but start with his collections.
_More_Than_Human_ is the first anthology I would look at - it should
have pointers to others.  Also, try the gigantic anthology by Anthony
Boucher (the name is on the tip of my tongue, it's ... it's ..., oh, you
know the one I mean, it comes in two volumes and was offered by the
Science Fiction Book Club as their loss leader).
-- 
[The opinions expressed here are only loosely based on the facts]

Bob Dalgleish		...!alberta!sask!zaphod!bobd
			      ihnp4!
(My company has disclaimed any knowledge of me and whatever I might say)

Article-I.D.: reed.1075
Posted: Tue Mar 12 01:03:56 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Mar-85 02:28:28 EST
References: <781@topaz.ARPA> <4130@ucla-cs.ARPA> <203@zaphod.UUCP>
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Lines: 11

Leonard Wibberley wrote a really great kids' sf book
called Encounter Near Venus which has a group mind
made up of critters called "lumens" which are little
lights which live in the Seesuch, which is the ocean
of Nede, which is a satellite of Venus.  It's a very
improbable and entertaining book, especially if you
are into things like baby gorgons and multicolored
Popsicle-flavored crystal cliffs and centaurs with
Liverpool accents.  Fun stuff.
		-- Ellen