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Subject: Re: World Contact Day
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:38:17 -0400
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On 3/17/2025 7:53 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
> [snip-snip]
>> Otherwise, SF seems to be
>> silent on telepathy and the paranormal up until
>> after John W Campbell -- reportedly a telepathy enthusiast -- came
>> on the scene. This is surprising since telepathy was in the news
>> a lot because of experiments promoted by radio broadcasters,
>> By 1937 there was even a racehorse named Telepathy.
> 
> Agreed; I am surprised there is not more out there.

The ISFDB database lets you search by user-assigned "tag". A search on 
"telepathy" finds over 500 titles. Regular (as opposed to Advanced) 
Search sorts by date, so you'll want to go to the last page -- 
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?491+500 -- which shows titles 
first published between 1889 and 1929 . The preceding page -- 
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag.cgi?491+400 -- shows titles first 
published between 1929 and 1939.

Adjacent tags include "mind control", "animal telepathy", "mechanical 
telepathy", etc.