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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark F. Vita)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST/Tomorrow People
Message-ID: <4345@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 16:41:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 16:41:19 1986
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Summary: 

In article <179@bucsb.UUCP> madd@bucsb.UUCP (James Frost) writes:
>About the _Tomorrow_People_ show:
>Yes, I'm another one who saw it.  The last article I read said that he
>(the author) wasn't sure it the "jaunt" (or however you spell it) was
>a natural ability or a mechanical one.  The answer is yes.  They could
>do it naturally, but this was usually quite limited, and they also had
>another, larger, thingamabob that did matter transportation without
>mental powers.

This sounds like it was lifted from Alfred Bester's novel "The Stars
My Destination" (also known as "Tiger! Tiger!").  In this book,
certain people have the ability to teleport themselves over short
distances through sheer mental effort.  It's definitely presented as a 
purely natural ability.  In the novel, this ability is referred to as
"jaunting", named after the first person to demonstrate the ability,
some French dude named Jaunte.  (As I recall, the way they got him to
do it was by locking him in an airtight tank and slowly filling it with
water...)

For anyone who has seen "Tomorrow People" and read TSMD, is any more
similarity between the two besides this jaunting business?  If so,
I'd be very interested in seeing it; TSMD is one one my all-time
favorite books.  Is "Tomorrow People" still being shown anywhere?

Meanwhile, back in net.startrek...



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                                Mark Vita
                                Dartmouth College

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