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Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 01:14:11 EST
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From: maxson%vaxwrk.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (VAXworks 223-9408)
Another "Group Mind" story is "Encounter Near Venus", author
forgotten, which I read in my youth. This is a juvenile, but
an excellent one.
I vaugely recall another novel, involving telepathy, where a strong
telepath would gather a group of people and begin to tell them a
story, telepathically. The telepath would integrate the personas of
his listeners as characters - the ultimate role playing game, with
the telepath as DM. This was not portrayed as a good thing: the
liseners (and the DM) would become so involved in the story they
never bothered to eat, and usually died. The heroes of this novel
were "good telepaths", who would use long distance ranging to find
a circle of affected listeners, and then insert themselves in the
game, make it go sour, and thereby break it up. This took exceptional
will power, and if the "good telepath" failed, he or she might be
dragged into the story and (eventually) die. Can't remember the title,
I regret to say.
Don't know if this is what you were looking for, but there is a
book by D.G. Compton called "The Steel Crocodile", and the famous
Harry Harrison "Stainless Steel Rat" series.
- "We are the Warriors on the Edge of Time, and we're
tired of making love..."
"MAXSON%VAXWRK.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA"
Mark Maxson / VAXworks / PKO2-1/M11
DEC /129 Parker St./ Maynard, MA/ 01754