Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 65: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION widened. “Less than most what?’ he demanded. “Less than most of the others, of course.”’ “You mean others with powers like mine? Is there some sort of organisation, then?’ It seemed too far- fetched to be possible; a group of people with abnormal powers—he still had to think of them as being abnormal— existing undetected in Deep London! It was fantastic. And yet... Whittam nodded. “‘There’s a group,” he said, a certainty in his tone, a knowledge with which one could never argue. “It’s very loosely-knit because - it’s got to be that way, things being what they are down here. And it’s not just in Deep London, either.” “You mean there are other groups in other Deep Cities ?”’ *“Not quite that. Let’s say that the group has members in all the Deep Cities.” He smiled, seeing the question in Patrick’s eyes. ““Yes, the East- ern Federation Deep Cities, too. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But it’s not, once you start thinking about it. The group formed out of people who had control of their powers, you see; it began as a number of telepaths—that’s men and women who can communicate 64 by thought alone—and since then it’s grown up, as you might say, and includes any- one who possesses control over their powers and also those who can be helped to gain that control. But every- thing has got to be done secretly. We can’t advertise or we'd have the security men on us right away, and we can’t afford to take risks like that—for the good of the whole group. Consequently, we often miss people, or can’t get to people, who may possess these powers in abun- dance, but who don’t know what they are, or how to use them.” He shrugged. “‘You can see how difficult it is for us.” ‘But that time in the can- teen,’’ Patrick started, frown- ing in an effort to concentrate on the whole problem, yet at the same time find answers to his own personal questions. ‘“‘When you saw that business with the spoon, you knew then that we were—well, that we’d got the powers, and also that we could use them. Yet all you did was give us your name and address in case we needed help. If your group is so keen to spot people like us, why didn’t you tell us, there and then, about who you were and where we could go to comiclooolkks.com