The forerunners

Chapter 1: The Forerunners

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A man who develops growing telepathic powers tests his limits in a technological urban setting, enjoying and probing others' minds until he discovers pockets of people whose thoughts remain closed. Colleagues reveal that mature telepaths organize into covert groups, some working within government and others hidden from it, and they recruit and assess emerging talents. The narrative follows his struggle to understand expanding abilities, the ethical and political tensions between control and autonomy, and the implications of mind-reading for personal privacy and social order.

The Forerunners

by Norman Arkawy and Stanley Henig

When a stellar navigator as gifted as Norman Arkawy finds a test pilot of Stanley Henig’s brilliance seated beside him on a journey to a star the cosmic mists are certain to roll back resplendently. True, the forerunners does not take us on a stellar journey in a strictly literal sense. But it would be carping indeed to insist on that when the cybernetic regions explored therein are so galactic in scope, and so challengingly mysterious.

The telepaths were a danger and a threat—to a world grown monstrous. But the human mind can unlock a multitude of doors.