Timeline for short story: ancient life-form found in power station
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 14:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 5:41 | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | That's fine. BTW I've found 3 more "X" People stories - they all seem to be in New Worlds. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 0:16 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2020 at 22:51 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2020 at 10:16 | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | The blurb on "Confession" (New Worlds, May 1963) says "Last month, John Rackham introduced a new type of human character, the ‘X’ person, in “Dossier,” - the Extraordinary People. The following story [Confession] concerns another of these slan-like individuals mixed up in a little matter of discipline." So it seems clear that they were introduced in "Dossier". I don't know how many subsequent stories they appeared in though - maybe many more! | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 9:51 | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | Many thanks to @user14111 for locating this story. I would like to comment on another aspect of my question, whether the protagonist had special powers. It turns out that the answer is "Yes"; he was working at the station at the request of a "Very High Authority", because he was an "X"-person with special empathic abilities. It seems John Rackham had developed the concept of a race of people with special powers, called the "X"-people. It's a strange coincidence that Rackham introduced his "X"-people in the same year that Stan Lee introduced the way more successful "X-men". | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 7:26 | comment | added | user14111 | @JohnRennie Sign of a misspent youth. | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 6:52 | comment | added | John Rennie | @user14111 I can say only that I bow to your knowledge of 1960s SF magazines, and that I feel a "we're not worthy moment" coming on :-) | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 5:45 | comment | added | John Rennie | @user14111 how on Earth did you find it? It's such an obscure story. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 14:01 | vote | accept | Clara Díaz Sanchez | ||
| Sep 6, 2020 at 14:01 | comment | added | Clara Díaz Sanchez | Thank you! Yes, that's it - I hope you didn't have to look through too many covers before finding the sickly green one. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 13:41 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 12:12 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 11:58 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 11:51 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 11:24 | comment | added | John Rennie | Aha, yes, the cover price is 2/6 | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 11:14 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 11:08 | history | answered | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
