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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..."

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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.

"Encounter Near Venus" is by Leonard Wibberley, author of "Ah,
Julian!", "Captain Treegate's War," and a few other good
juvenile books.  I think Wibberley is terrific.  "ENV" has a
sequel too, whose title I cannot recall.  Highly recommended.