Psion (1982) (edit title/settings)

Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Cat: half-breed street kid
• Jule taMing: teleport and empath she is Cat's best friend
• Dr. Ardan Siebeling: psiopsychologist heading research for psions at Sakaffe Institute
• Derezady 'Dere' Cortelyou: telepath and precog who helped Cat learn how to control his telepathy
• Mikah: Cat's bond partner on Cinder
• Kielhosa: Federation worker on Cinder
• Meade Joraleman: Chief Purchaser on Cinder
• Rubiy "Quicksilver": rogue psion who can teleport and also telepathic as well as telekinetic working for the highest bidder
• Gailiess: telepath, Rubiy's second in command

Quotes edit see section history

• “That's the problem, you see. For most people, the only one who sees into their soul is God. And most of us wish even God was a little nearsighted.”

  Joraleman

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Oldcity: city under Quarro
• Quarro: main city on Ardattee
• Ardatee: the hub of the Federation
• Crab Nebula: cloud of gas and debris left from a supernova that is controlled by the FTA because of the large supply of telhassium
• Crab Colonies: several star systems with inhabited planets near Crab Nebula controlled by FTA
• Cinder: sun's corpse in Crab Nebula almost a solid piece of telhassium ore

Organizations edit see section history

• Federal Transport Authority: regulates shipping in the galaxy; also known as FTA
• Contract Labor: contracts workers to build new worlds, workers are bonded and have to work off their contract or serve for 10 years
• Sakaffe Institute: research institute in Quarro
• Centauri Transit: one of the most powerful shipping families; run by Jule's family the taMing's

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Corpse: short for Corporate Security officer
• croach: backstabber, paid snitch
• telhassium: blue-silver crystal used for information storage in computers
• joining: meeting of minds between a telepath and another psion so complete their minds become one
• freak: slang for person with psion ability or mixed breeding (Hydran/Human)
• Hydrans: telepaths from the Beta Hydrea system
• bondie: bonded for 10 years to the Federation wearing red band bonded to skin on wrist
• dreamtime: street name for Kadge, a drug that is highly addictive

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Catspaw.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Joan D. Vinge (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( V ) › Vinge, Joan
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Adventure
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary