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Psychic Powers in Literature

February 6, 2009 6:29:29 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hello to everyone!

I would like to know if you have any suggestions for books regarding psychic powers (or a transformation to a higher plane of existence) in literature.

I have a list here from what I have found in the web:

  1. Brian Lumley - Psychomech Trilogy
  2. Arthur C. Clarke - Childhoods End and the Space Odyssey Series
  3. Issac Asimov - Foundation Series
  4. Frank Herbert - Dune Series
  5. E. E. Doc Smith - Lensman Series
  6. Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination
  7. Peter David - Psi-Man Series
  8. Anne McCaffrey - Pegasus Series and Tower & Hive Series (?)
  9. Stephen King - Firestarter
  10. Star Wars Universe
  11. Warhammer 40.000 Universe

I would welcome any new additions (or corrections to my list).

Thank you all.

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Reply #1 February 6, 2009 10:01:13 AM
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  • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover stories
  • Julian May's Saga of the Pliocence Exile series and Galactic Milieu series
  • Octavia Butler's Patternist series
  • James Tiptree Jr.'s (pen name for Alice Sheldon) Up the Walls of the World
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Reply #2 February 6, 2009 3:29:37 PM
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ALL startrek series,star war

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Reply #3 February 7, 2009 12:51:42 AM
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Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton, R.I.P.) had psychic powers in many of her novels.

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Reply #4 February 7, 2009 1:01:13 AM
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Anne McCaffrey's pegasus series is predated by its prequels The Rowan, Damia and a few other books in that series. Tower and the Hive comes much later in the story line.

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Reply #5 February 7, 2009 3:38:01 AM
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supposedly this is non-fiction psycic stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Warrior-Americas-Foremost-Top-Secret/dp/0312964137

I read it once for a paper.

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Reply #6 February 8, 2009 5:55:36 AM
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Quoting Tamren,
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Anne McCaffrey's pegasus series is predated by its prequels The Rowan, Damia and a few other books in that series. Tower and the Hive comes much later in the story line.
I think we can probably thank the marketroids for the confusion, but the Damia books came to be lumped together as 'Tower and the Hive series' (with the original definite article missed off) around about the fourth book (Lyon's Pride) and rather confusingly finished with a book entitled 'The Tower and The Hive'. Around about the same time the Pegasus books started being grouped together under the heading of 'Talent Series' and more recent books have listed Damia et al as 'Tower and the Hive Sequence' rather than series.

 

Irrespective of the labelling, all are well worth reading

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Reply #7 February 9, 2009 11:18:20 PM
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I have and have read all of the Talent books. That is all of her books using 'talent' to describe psychic abilities.

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Reply #8 February 10, 2009 1:29:11 AM
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Greh, well back when I read it the Tower and the Hive was an actual book instead of a series. That whole rebranding shtick is pretty common now.

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