Daryl Gregory's new novel is Spoonbenders.One of his five favorite books about psi powers—telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, and other parapsychological activity—as shared at Tor.com:
It’s a Family Thing: Mind of My Mind by Octavia ButlerRead about the other entries on the list.
This 1977 novel, the second book in the Patternist series, was the first Octavia Butler novel I read, and it was thrilling. The story is about Mary, a latent telepath who is part of a breeding program orchestrated by a 4,000-year-old immortal, Doro, whose mind hops from body to body.Mary becomes the most powerful psionic in the world (there are flying telekinetics, too) by linking with first six, then over a thousand telepaths in what she calls a Pattern.
But typical for Butler, Mary doesn’t want to rule the world; she wants to protect her family, and this community of Patternists. When Doro, feeling threatened, attacks Mary, the group kills him. Butler demonstrates that power for the sake of power is a hollow goal.
--Marshal Zeringue
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