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Originally Posted by HarryT
Interstellar travel by psionic means is a common plot in SF, of course. Consider "Dune", in which the planet Arrakis is the sole source of the drug used by the psi-talented "guild navigators" for interstellar travel,
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Well, the Guild Navigators didn't use psi to
power the ships. They used melange to let them see possible futures, to plot a safe course. Herbert never did say anything about exactly
how the Guild Heighliners got from here to there. (And that was a gripe of mine about the series. There is a posited anti-technology bias, but
somebody builds the mile-long starships the Spacing Guild operates. Who? Where?)
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Anne McCaffrey's "Tower and Hive" series, in which interstellar transport is provided by telepaths using telekenesis to transport ships and cargo between star systems.
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Or E. E. Smith's _The Galaxy Primes_, where Operators and Prime Operators can use psionic energy from the "Operator Field" to do all manner of things.
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Dennis