advent "foreshadow"

[Jim Parish]

Mark Mandel wrote:
> Yeah, but brain-to-brain, or brain-to-Net-to-brain. (So which one is
> Pinky?) I'd call that close enough for the word. I'm sure there's some sf
> somewhere with telepathy over the phone or radio, though I haven't seen any.

The Tines, in Vernor Vinge's _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and _The Children of
the Sky_, are an approximation to this.

Jim Parish

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