I agree. In fact, I just got through reading it for
the first time a couple of weeks before this thread
began. This SF book is ALL about the interior life.
James Palmer
--- Loyal Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi:
> IMHO, the best SF novel about telepathy is Robert
> Silverberg's DYING INSIDE.
> It's about a telepath who is slowly losing his
> ability and how this
> affects his very concept of who he is. An absolutely
> brilliant novel of
> internal landscape. Probably Silverberg's best book.
>
> It's a book I often recomend to the lit-crit snobs
> who claim that SF is
> never about the interior life of its characters, so
> is by their
> definition inferior.
>
> Hightly recomended.
>
> Fred Ramsey
> Curmudgeon at Large
> Bookseller, Poet, Rabble-Rouser
>
>
>
>
> Colleen R. Cahill wrote:
>
> >John,
> > I believe the Julian May novels in the Pliocene
> Saga, the Galactic
> >milieu and _Intervention_ all have characters with
> some clairvoyant
> >abilities. Some are also telepaths. My favorite
> of these is the Pliocene
> >Saga (The many-colored land, the golden torc, etc.)
> as it was an
> >interesting blend of fantasy and science fiction.
> >Colleen
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> >
> >On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, John Snead wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I am interested in finding more media (especially
> books) with good
> >>and complex treatments of both telepathy and
> clairvoyance. I'm
> >>rather at a loss for good SF featuring
> clairvoyance, any
> >>suggestions?
> >>
> >>Obviously, for telepathy The Whole Man by John
> Brunner, The
> >>Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, and The Missing
> Man by
> >>Katherine MacLean are good first steps (what is it
> about "The ___
> >>Man" as titles of books with telepaths?) Some of
> Andre Norton's
> >>better work is also not bad, nor is Jack of Eagles
> by James Blish.
> >>Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >>
> >>Also, I remember reading a novel back in the 70s
> (perhaps by Keith
> >>Laumer) that featured a powerful telepath in the
> modern day, who
> >>for a time made a living matching people with
> items they wanted to
> >>buy but couldn't find. Does anyone remember the
> title of this book?
> >>
> >>-John Snead [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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