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From: bobd@zaphod.UUCP (Bob Dalgleish)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Group mind
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 15:02:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 15:02:08 1985
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> 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]

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