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Vance Simonds
Known for mid-century science fiction that plays with parapsychology and human behavior, this writer imagined strange mental powers in a brisk, pulp-era style. His work remains best known through stories like Telempathy, which later found new life through digital archives and reprints.
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Telempathy
by Vance Simonds
About the author
Vance Simonds was a science fiction writer whose known published work centers on the early 1960s. His story Telempathy appeared in Amazing Stories in June 1963, and it explores psychic connection, persuasion, and the social uses of unusual mental abilities.
His name is also associated with other short speculative fiction from that same magazine era, including work listed in bibliographic sources such as The Red Tape Yonder. Modern readers are most likely to encounter him through Project Gutenberg and other archive or reprint sites, which have helped keep his fiction available.
Very little biographical information about his personal life was easy to confirm from reliable sources, so the published record tells us more about the stories than about the man. What does come through clearly is an interest in parapsychology, a theme that places his fiction squarely within a lively strand of classic magazine science fiction.