02424cam a22003973u 4500 77421 UtSlPG 20260610134807.0 m cr n 260607r20251956utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Arkawy, Norman, 1927-2004 The forerunners Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from Fantastic Universe, March 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 2.). Release date is 2025-12-08 Sean/IB and Tom Trussel The forerunners by Norman Arkawy and Stanley Henig is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It explores emergent telepathy, authoritarian control, and a cybernetic plan to liberate imprisoned psychics. Neville Brandt, a rising cybernetics expert, discovers his sporadic telepathy is growing stronger. His boss, Blanding, and his secretary, Ellen, reveal themselves as telepaths—Blanding as a government “spotter” who traps telepaths in automated Asylums, Ellen appearing to aid him. After they deliver Neville to an Asylum, Ellen secretly makes telepathic contact and guides him to the facility’s cybernetic control hub, where Blanding confronts him. Neville subdues Blanding, and Ellen reveals she is part of an underground determined to free telepaths nationwide, using Neville’s unique expertise to set the central “Brain” that can unlock every cell. With her help—and his own meticulous notes on telepathic development—Neville activates the system, beginning a mass release and signaling the rise of a free telepathic community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1956 Science fiction Short stories Telepathy -- Fiction United States -- Fiction Henig, Stanley Hunter, Mel, 1927-2004 Produced from Fantastic Universe, March 1956 (Vol. 5, No. 2.). https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v05n02_1956-03/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77421 118141 118141