Supermind - Garrett Randall; Janifer, Laurence M
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"Supermind" is a technological know-how fiction novel written via the collaborative duo of Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. This novel is a part of the "Psi-Power" series, recognised for its exploration of psychic capabilities in a futuristic placing. The story is ready in a future wherein certain people own splendid psychic powers, referred to as "psis." These psis are categorised into various categories primarily based on their abilities, inclusive of telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition. The world is split into principal electricity blocs, East and West, each vying for…mehr

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"Supermind" is a technological know-how fiction novel written via the collaborative duo of Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. This novel is a part of the "Psi-Power" series, recognised for its exploration of psychic capabilities in a futuristic placing. The story is ready in a future wherein certain people own splendid psychic powers, referred to as "psis." These psis are categorised into various categories primarily based on their abilities, inclusive of telepathy, telekinesis, and precognition. The world is split into principal electricity blocs, East and West, each vying for manipulate over the arena's psis. The narrative follows the protagonist, Richard Thane, an effective telepath and telekinetic. Thane is recruited via the Western bloc's intelligence corporation to thwart the plans of the Eastern bloc, which is trying to create a supermind-a being with mammoth psychic powers capable of changing the direction of records. As Thane delves deeper into the intrigue and espionage surrounding the supermind challenge, he encounters a forged of characters with their very own psychic competencies and motivations. The novel explores subject matters of electricity, ethics, and the consequences of unchecked technological development in an international in which psychic capabilities are each a treasured asset and a potential chance.
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Laurence M. Janifer (born March 17, 1933 - July 10, 2002) was an American science fiction novelist who worked for almost 50 years. Janifer was born in Brooklyn, New York, with the surname Harris, but adopted his Polish grandfather's surname in 1963. The byline "Larry M. Harris" appeared in numerous of the author's early tales. Though his first published work was a short tale in Cosmos magazine in 1953, his writing career began in 1959 when he began writing for Astounding and Galaxy Science Fiction. He co-wrote Brain Twister, the first novel in the "Psi-Power" series, with Randall Garrett under the pen name Mark Phillips. In 1960, the work was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best work, and it was published in book form in 1962. Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (December 16, 1927 - December 31, 1987) was a science fiction and fantasy author from the United States. In the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed to Astounding and other science fiction periodicals. He taught Robert Silverberg how to market enormous amounts of action-adventure science fiction and worked with him on two novels about Earthmen upsetting a peaceful agrarian civilisation on an extraterrestrial planet.