Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Susser.PASA@Xerox.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Susser.PASA@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Pointers please? Message-ID: <616@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 13:22:56 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.616 Posted: Wed Feb 13 13:22:56 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 03:03:12 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 40 From: Susser.PASA@XEROX.ARPA > I am looking for stories dealing with racial memory or group minds. The Fire Lizards in Anne McCaffrey's Pern series had racial memory. So did Paul Muad'dib Atreides ("Dune") and his children and his sister Alia. Keith Laumer's "The Infinite Cage" has a character who can draw upon the memories of all of humanity somewhat telepathically. Group minds? Heinlein had something in "Methusula's Children" (in the collection "The Past Through Tomorrow") about The Little People. Also the alien enemy bug thingies in "Starship Troopers". And "I Will Fear No Evil" had a group of minds in a single body. "The Puppet Masters" were kind of a group mind (this story was ripped-off into a Star Trek episode where a blob of Jello-slime flies onto Spock's back and tries to take over his body). Varley had an interesting version of a group mind in "The Persistence of Vision". And Gaea ("Titan", "Wizard", "Demon") could fragment herself into a group of minds. Also, Varley's Symb-human pairs that lived in the Rings of Saturn ("Equinoctial") experienced a very loose form of group mind (mostly due to mating!). The basic conflict in Haldeman's "Forever War" hinged upon the incompatibilities of group and discrete minds. Julian May's Galactic Milieu ("The Saga of the Pliocene Exile") had a sort of Galactic group mind called Unity. Movies -- Nestor in "Battle Beyond the Stars" was a group mind (hillarious scene of one Nestor eating a hot-dog and all of them chewing). And to all you people in net land: I remember a short story (by Heinlein or Asimov?) that involved a starship manned by a multi-racial crew coming to evacuate Earth before Sol goes nova. A few of the crew were part of a group mind. This was important when a landing party was trapped in a trans-Atlantic subway and cut off from radio communications. Anyone know the author/title? That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but it should keep you busy for a while. --Josh Nestor: "That's okay, we always carry a spare."