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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 155932" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Thanks for replying, T G, yes fair enough, we've all got many things we must do. Who gets time to read books any more, especially old sf ....... ?</p><p></p><p>However, I'm encouraged by the resurgence of interest in "classic" sf, until recently mostly out of print, but now back in print again, so interested people can at least read them!</p><p></p><p>The way telepathy was "added" to stuff like Venus Equilateral, Humanoids, Lensmen (not to mention The Foundation) - due to Campbell's "constant pushing" - is something that interests me personally. There's an argument that, having first created science fiction, he then destroyed it again via this obsession! He certainly went a "bit off the rails", helping start Scientology and promoting the Dean Drive, etc.</p><p></p><p>In my view, the best ever telepathy novels are those of Dan Morgan: The New Minds, The Several Minds, The Mind Trap, The Country of the Mind. Develops possible social implications of esp, along with a nice slice of 1960s/70s British sociology. I see (at least) The New Minds is back in print, but there's little or nothing about Dan Morgan's novels on the Internet.</p><p></p><p>(sorry, but I'm not a Cordwainer fan!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 155932, member: 192438"] Thanks for replying, T G, yes fair enough, we've all got many things we must do. Who gets time to read books any more, especially old sf ....... ? However, I'm encouraged by the resurgence of interest in "classic" sf, until recently mostly out of print, but now back in print again, so interested people can at least read them! The way telepathy was "added" to stuff like Venus Equilateral, Humanoids, Lensmen (not to mention The Foundation) - due to Campbell's "constant pushing" - is something that interests me personally. There's an argument that, having first created science fiction, he then destroyed it again via this obsession! He certainly went a "bit off the rails", helping start Scientology and promoting the Dean Drive, etc. In my view, the best ever telepathy novels are those of Dan Morgan: The New Minds, The Several Minds, The Mind Trap, The Country of the Mind. Develops possible social implications of esp, along with a nice slice of 1960s/70s British sociology. I see (at least) The New Minds is back in print, but there's little or nothing about Dan Morgan's novels on the Internet. (sorry, but I'm not a Cordwainer fan!). [/QUOTE]
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