Timeline for Looking for a novel or novella about a federal manhunt for a telepathic alien
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| Nov 2 at 13:43 | comment | added | gidds | Another fairly similar book is Polar City Blues by Katharine Kerr; it too involves a manhunt for a lone telepathic alien murderer who is new to the planet, with one of the agents being telepathic and in a nascent relationship with a co-worker, and glimpses of the murderer's POV. (But it doesn't match the other points. It's a fun read — sort of SF noir-lite with bits of police procedural, inter-species politics, and a focus on the (many) characters.) | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 22:40 | comment | added | Emsley Wyatt | A similar tale is Eric Frank Russell's "Legwork". troynovant.com/Franson/Russell/Legwork.html | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 11:09 | answer | added | Bun-Lu | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 22:47 | vote | accept | Lorendiac | ||
| Oct 24, 2016 at 6:15 | answer | added | sueelleker | timeline score: 25 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 2:22 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 0:57 | history | edited | Lorendiac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Lorendiac | Well, it helps immensely that I read it twice, at least a decade apart. If I'd only read it in, say, the early 1980s, I might have said, basically: "Alien visitor lands. Kills farmer's dog. Federal agent hunting for him is secretly a telepath who wants to marry a girl who is a registered telepath. I forget just how the silly thing ended, but there was some sort of twist. Sound familiar to anyone?" (I think that's approximately how much I did remember in the mid-1990s when I sat down to read it all over again!) :-) | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 0:50 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | Wow, incredibly detailed question! | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 0:40 | history | asked | Lorendiac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |