Theme & Character Lists: Psychics, Seers, and Fortune-Tellers

Clairvoyants, telekinetics, telepathy - o my! These are carefully distinguished "mental powers", as opposed to "magical powers" - an ostensibly scientific study. Often these powers are enhanced by crystals.

• Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Forbidden Tower etc.
• Butler, Octavia. Wild Seed and sequelae.

• Fast, Julius. The League of Grey-Eyed Women (1970)
• Feinberg, Karen. "The Sender of Dreams," Amazon Quarterly (Berkeley, CA) July 1974. Reprinted in The Lesbian Reader, edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana, Oakland, CA, Amazon Press, 1975. [psychic lesbians]
• Fletcher, Jane. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - psychic powers, especially healing, and especially healing for the purposes of inducing parthenogenesis, are prized in this all-woman world

• Gearhart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women (1978)
• Grae, Camarin. Paz (Blazon Books, 1984) (A woman has an accident and finds that she now has the power to change what people believe.)

• Merwin, Sam. Sex War (sort-of anti-feminist story of the descendants of Amazons plotting to take over the world through genetics & parthenogenesis. the Amazons have psychic powers. -- lq 5/14/00)

• Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing
• Stewart, Jean. The Isis novels

• Waters, Sarah. Affinity (1999, UK) (A women in a victorian women's prison may be a sapphist, or a spiritualist, or both, or something else altogether. Not necessarily sf/f but read it anyway.)