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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: World Contact Day
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:07:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:03:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote:
>
>> Saturday, March 15, 2025 is World Contact Day
>> 
>> From Wikipedia:
>> 
>> "World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization
>> called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all
>> IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space."
>
>Speaking of telepathy, does anyone know of SF prior to "Slan" by van Vogt 
>(1940) in which telepathy is a plot element?

Rudyard Kipling's _Wireless_ (1902).
--scott
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