Leonard replied to Phil:
>On 25 Jun 2015 at 11:41, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
>> Yeah, I agree, & esp wrt the psi powers.
>>
>> The first time I read about that I thought, "Geez, they just *had* to have a way to get 'magic-users' into the game".
>
>Psi was pretty common in 50s and 60s SF. John W Campbell, editor of
>Astounding (which laterchanged to Analog) was really into it.
Andre Norton’s _Star Rangers_ (1953) included psionics. The “powers of the mind” are an old, old SF trope. YMMV, but I found psi powers more jarring in 1st Edition AD&D… (still, mindflayers were cool bad guys…)
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