Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: YA group mind message Message-ID: <2182@usceast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 01:39:45 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2182 Posted: Sun Mar 10 01:39:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Mar-85 01:14:13 EST Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 48 No one has yet mentioned Octavia Butler's patternmaster books. I think there are two : _Pattern Master_ and _Mind of My Mind_ (if there are any more I would be interested in hearing). My memory is a little hazy on these, but basically they assumed our culture being overturned by a group of telepaths who were all bound (willingly or not) to a central telepath called the "Patternmaster". Normal people became a slave underclass. _Mind of My Mind_ describes the beginning of the process (the forming of the first pattern) through the eyes of a young woman, while _Patternmaster_ happens much later. I recall them both as being rather good. Memory fails again, but I'll describe one more, probably from the late 60's or early 70's. This book was one of the first series of Ace Specials. The author postulated starfaring humans at war with an alien race, which seemed determined to destroy human star flight capability. No one knew the motives of the aliens, or why they used such clumsy space drives when they must have been able to build better. The war seemed to be doing something to humanity, the quality of thought was slipping everywhere but on one planet (known as the artist's world or somesuch), where the military finally had to move its headquarters. It turned out that every species had a group mind, composed of those dead and gone, which was largely responsible for creativity and intuition -- and the human star drive was wreaking havoc with the group minds (the artist's world was behind a thick asteroid belt or something that prevented close approach on star drive). The story's main character got to be "reincarnated" to stop the war. Unfortunately, I can't put a name to this one. When you have several thousand paperbacks and a FINO* filing system, bibliography is an difficult hobby. My best guess is _Palace of Eternity_ by Bob Shaw, but I could be completely wrong. One more : Randall Garret and his wife (forget her name) have a sort of public access group mind in their Galandra Cycle books. (_The Bronze of Edarta_, _Search for Ka_, _Well of Darkness_ etc). *First in Never out Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted (UUCP) 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 allegra!usceast!ted@seismo (ARPA, maybe) ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------