Questions tagged [telepathy]
Refers to the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. Also known as mind reading.
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What short story book had "story for telepaths"?
In 1990s I read a SF short story book named along the lines of "Worlds shortest science fiction stories". I am trying to locate that.
The only story that I remember definitively is:
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Do any empaths or telepaths in Star Trek follow a code of conduct?
In Star Trek: The Next Generation there are multiple species who can, to various degrees, read the mind and/or emotions of other beings. This brings up a host of privacy concerns, and this question ...
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90s sci-fi book- post-apocalyptic telepathic society that lives within a walled area; people who don't develop telepathy get killed
I read this book most likely in the early 90s. I have quite a few details from the beginning of the book:
After some disaster or war, humans developed telepathy and walled off most of the outside ...
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Trying to find old story of alien who looks like a dog, boy and dog go to the moon
I am looking for the title and/or author of a book or short story from either the 50's or 60's that I read when I was a teenager. In the book, a boy finds a dog (that may have crash-landed on earth). ...
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Sci-fi novel about a planet w/ a dying sun, bird-like or penguin-like beings, telepathy, and blue-green crystals?
I would love some help on this. Not sure if I read it in the 80s, 90s, or early 00s, so I don't know how old it is, but I don't think it was written before the mid-80s. I have vague recollections of ...
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Has a telepathic character in DC Comics been able to telepathically freeze people/time like Professor X in Marvel?
Since it has been established that Professor X has been shown to use his telepathic/telekinetic powers to mentally halt people in their tracks in both comics and the movies - see here for that - my ...
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70s/80s movie about a telepathic visitor (either time traveler or extraterrestrial) with a connection to the pyramids trying to warn humans
It's a movie I saw as a youngster. If I remember correctly it was about a visitor - he looked Caucasian perhaps from Norway/Sweden/Finland. Can't remember if he was a time traveler or ...
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What does Psi Corps say about scanning the minds of people?
What are the laws that the Psi Corps have about a Telepath scanning the minds of people?
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Short story about the drawbacks of human telepathy on an alien planet
There will be heavy spoilers in my question. The plot is that a band of humans have been genetically engineered to be telepathic. Unfortunately, the engineered humans made the rest of humanity nervous,...
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Short story about universal telepathy
I read a short story many years ago - mid-80's? - in which something happens which gives everyone on earth telepathic abilities. In the short term, there is chaos, as no one can keep a secret anymore,...
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Looking for space spy book with female protagonist
Here are the details I can remember:
Female lead is a spy/assassin, near the beginning of the book she is seducing a man to get information, but he realizes she is a spy and she ends up killing him ...
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People connected by telepathy
Trying to find a short story/novella about several people connected by telepathy. The two hands were a pair of twins who moved in response to the “brain,” also a separate individual. I read it in the ...
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Mid 80s movie about 3 mute aliens and telepathic woman
In the early to mid 80s, HBO aired a movie about 3 mute aliens (played by children looking bald and tan). They're helped by a male and female protagonist, and the aliens can communicate with the woman ...
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Can Professor X / other psychics detect physical abnormalities/defects that directly cause mental ones?
There are cases when physical defects, injuries, etc. can cause different mental conditions. For example, I knew of a guy in real life who was super nice to everyone, but all of a sudden would ...
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Looking for a book about two kids who find a Roman (I think) coin and gain superpowers
It's been years since I read it - a brother and sister find a an old coin and then develop powers, the centre of which is their ability to communicate with each other telepathically. When they are ...
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Looking for a story where the protagonist defends against mind reading by repeating a counting-out rhyme
Don't know much for sure about this story. I've never read it; only heard a review at some point in mid-nineties on Polish TV. The author may very well be Polish, but there's a chance it was a ...
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Need title of book I read in the 80's about a post-apocalyptic earth in which all humans are telepathic
Back in the late 70's or early-to-mid-80's I bought a book from the Science Fiction Book Club about a post-apocalyptic Earth in which people lived in small villages and everyone was telepathic - they ...
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Title of old sci fi movie with two men compelled by a telepathic force to build a device [duplicate]
This was a movie in color 50s 60s maybe 70s. It opened with two men, maybe scientists, who were in an office or at a home, and who were compelled by a telepathic force to build a device - they had no ...
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Trying to find a book I read ages ago about telepathic aliens on a colony world
What I can remember is that the main character travels to the new world colony via a space ship. When she (I think) arrives and is woken up she finds out that she is one of a small percentage of ...
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Sci-fi book about a small sea-cucumber like alien that made humans go insane and/or die [duplicate]
I don't remember anything about the title or author of this book. I think it was a relatively simple title. It was a fairly short book, the cover was a silver-blue (I think?), and I think it had a ...
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A book where a man inhabits the body of a dying man and befriends a telepathic cat
Some time around 1998 I read a book (which is surely older) suggested by one of my friends. Since this is the first time posting for me I'll do my best to give all the details I can recall.
The main ...
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Trying to find a short story: telepathy has all but destroyed the female population of Earth. Returning astronauts offer hope of repopulation
From an anthology read in my youth in the 70's. I recall it has the crew of a deep range rocket being feted on their return because the female crew members may be able to bear children (they had been ...
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Short Story ID: Beginning of telepathic humans [duplicate]
I believe I read a short story in the 50's about the beginning of telepathy in humans. The enemies were breaking into the location as the couple telepathically married themselves just before being ...
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Why was telepathy so common in Golden Age sci-fi?
Telepathy (and similar terms like "psionics", etc.) is found throughout science fiction, but seems to be particularly a part of many, many Golden Age stories and novels.
In stories that otherwise ...
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Dystopian future, AI Space weapons, sentient dolphins, Railroad gauge wars and more. What's the book name?
So I read this book several years ago and now I'm trying to remember the name. I know this is a fairly vague description but I'm hoping it's enough for someone to catch on and help me.
I know this ...
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What examples do we have of Susan Ivanova's latent telepathy?
In season 2, episode 19 “Divided Loyalties”, CDR Ivanova confesses to CAPT John Sheridan of her telepathic abilities.
IVANOVA: I'm a latent telepath.
SHERIDAN: Susan, why didn't you tell me ...
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Humans orbiting exoplanet establish telepathic control of massive six-legged feline creature that has IR-sense plates instead of eyes
Humans in a spaceship orbiting an alien planet have a machine that they can hook their heads up to that lets them take telepathic control (and receive the senses of) of massive (I think at least ...
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Did Sauron use telepathy (ósanwe) to interrogate Gollum?
Every now and then since the publication of the "Ósanwe-kenta" I have wondered what events in Middle-Earth had links to telepathy.
Besides the obvious – Frodo putting on the Ring on Amon Hen,...
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In which book does a man start whistling a tune, only to discover moments later it is playing on the radio? (passive telepathy is implied)
In which book does a man start whistling a tune, only to discover moments later it is playing on the radio? (and thereby showing passive telepathy)
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It could be very well be a book by Philip K....
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Looking for an ebook about a telepathic woman and telepathic twin brothers
I am looking for an e-book which I read about a high level telepathic woman who works as a mediator in government service. Her work is basically to mediate negotiations between parties as she can ...
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Looking for book - empathic/telepathic alien captured on distant planet, brought back to earth
I am looking for a book which came from a public library, I read it about... 15 years back, I believe. I cannot remember the title of the book nor the author, but I remember some of the plot.
Humans ...
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Short story where aliens threaten to kill humans because we do not share a group mind
The plot is pretty simple. A group-mind race of aliens arrive and threaten to kill the humans because we do not share a group mind. The humans agree to let the aliens modify them so they can form a ...
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Mind Controlling Invasive Alien Plants
A while ago I was reading a short story / novella, possibly part of an anthology. The Premise was:
Human space explorers land on an alien world, and discovers a primitive species that is Stone Age in ...
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If telepaths can influence minds, why don't they fix the world and bring peace?
Telepath mutants such as Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, etc... are powerful telepaths who can exhibit awesome telepathic feats and abilities. If they can influence the minds of others to the ...
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Looking for a novel or novella about a federal manhunt for a telepathic alien
I'm trying to identify a story. I first read this in a library book sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s. I believe I reread it about a decade later, around the mid-1990s (again in a library book), but ...
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Name of a book featuring a race using interplanetary telepathy
I am looking for the name of a science fiction book I read in my childhood. The story and clues as far as I remember are like that:
There is an arid planet with a single but very tall building where ...
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Film with two children who can temporarily communicate telepathically in a castle
I watched this film on TV, possibly around 2006-08. I can't recall if it used any CGI, but it seemed quite modern, as if it had been made in the 90s - early 2000s.
I think it was a fantasy film, but ...
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At what range can Leerans read minds?
The Leerans can read other people's minds. But they can't do it if they're too far away from the being they're trying to read. What is the maximum distance from which they can read minds clearly?
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Short story called "Idiot planet" or something similar
Short story about a multi-species team which is composed of humans and some other alien species sent to study an amphibian sentient species which suffers a pandemic that damages their gills. Aliens in ...
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Earliest Telepathic bonding story?
I was wondering about the earliest use of telepathic bonding in both fantasy as well as science fiction. I guess I should narrow it down by excluding simple telepathic 'speaking'. So, I define it as ...
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Sci Fi book about colonizing dinosaur planet
Started a book many years ago about a planet with dinosaurs and Stone Age man on it. Earth colonists had arrived and used some sort of mind control technology on the dinosaurs. Also introduced some ...
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Mercs/explorers find telepathic wolves, tigers, horses, eagles, buried UFO wreckage in remote valley
I dug this book out of Dad's box back in the late 60's or early 70's. A team of explorers or maybe mercenaries crashes in a remote valley (possibly China or Mongolia?) and discover people living there ...
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Who was the first telepath?
Telepathy is a mainstay of modern science fiction and fantasy. Our top six tags (not counting story identification and similar) each feature telepathic characters prominently.
Harry Potter: Lord ...
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Anthology for children; contains story about friendly Martian on postapocalyptic Earth
I'm looking for the title of an anthology of children's science fiction stories from the 1950s. The best of the bunch involved a Martian who visited earth, and realized we'd blown ourselves up in a ...
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Author & title of short story about cat navigator of spaceship
Short story several decades old, about cat navigator or co-pilot of a spaceship and its human partner. They were isolated in different compartments, communication telepathic only, no visual or audio ...
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Everyone on earth can suddenly read each other's minds
Trying to identify a story about the population of the earth suddenly developing telepathy.
I don't remember much about this story.
Suddenly everyone on earth wakes up one morning and can read each ...
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Are Time Lords psychic?
The Doctor is famous for his use of psychic paper:
However, at times, the Doctor seemingly demonstrated innate psychic powers. At the end of series 4, for example, he used them to
Besides this and ...
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Book from the 70's: advanced civilisation bodies found in Antarctica, one tells their story
The book I'm looking for was set in either Antarctica or the North Pole. I really believe it was Antarctica. During a dig, 2 prehistoric, advanced civilization bodies were discovered. One of them ...
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Trying to identify a story about Sentient Trees
Trying to identify the title and author of a Science Fiction story about a human boy and girl who are on an alien world. Notable is the teleportation device that only allows non-living material or ...
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Story about female telepaths looking for compatible male telepath
A man runs into some women who can read minds. After he gets to know two of them, they ask if he would take part in a gene experiment that would allow him to control his own genes. He does and then ...
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