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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Pointers please?
Message-ID: <618@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:02:57 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.618
Posted: Fri Mar  1 10:02:57 1985
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Summary: 

> Article <616@topaz.ARPA>, from @RUTGERS.ARPA:Susser.PASA@Xerox.ARPA
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| > I am looking for stories dealing with racial memory or group minds.
| 
| The Fire Lizards in Anne McCaffrey's Pern series had racial memory.  So
| did Paul Muad'dib Atreides ("Dune") and his children and his sister
| Alia.  Keith Laumer's "The Infinite Cage" has a character who can draw
| upon the memories of all of humanity somewhat telepathically.
|

There are two kinds of racial memory (of sorts) in Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END:
when Joan "remembered" the catalog designation of the Overlords' home
base, and a vcurious kind of "inverse" racial memory linking the last
days of the human race to the shape of the Overlords, resulting in the
classical image of the devil back in our prehistory (racial memory as a
tape loop?).

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| And to all you people in net land:  I remember a short story (by
| Heinlein or Asimov?) that involved a starship manned by a multi-racial
| crew coming to evacuate Earth before Sol goes nova.  A few of the crew
| were part of a group mind.  This was important when a landing party was
| trapped in a trans-Atlantic subway and cut off from radio
| communications.  Anyone know the author/title?

Clarke again.  I think it was "RESCUE MISSION"; it's in THE SENTINEL.

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