Re: World Contact Day

On 3/17/2025 7:53 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
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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.