Li um livro (distópico, se a memória servir) em que uma certa porcentagem da população poderia se comunicar por telepatia mental. Eu acho que eles mantiveram o fato oculto. Eles se referiram à habilidade como 'lepping'. Eu olhei em todos os lugares. Alguém se lembra disso? Obrigado!
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The ship was called the Pleiades, and it was Earth’s first starship. It could travel instantaneously to literally anywhere in the universe – but that was just the trouble with it. For there was absolutely no way of predicting where in the infinities of space it would reappear when it winked out of the Solar System, and no way of knowing how to return.
it’s [sic] crew was two men and two women, each a Psionic Prime with mind-powers unparalleled in Earth’s history.
Eles usam o termo "lepping" para se referir à telepatia.
"Wait a minute," Lola went on. "There's a funny-looking automobile just coming through the gate. The Press. Three men and two women. To cameras, one walkie-talkie, and two microphones. The photog in the purple shirt is really a sharpie at lepping. Class Three, at least-- possible a Two."
O que não combina é que os protagonistas estão se movendo de universo paralelo para universo paralelo, não começando em um, e seus talentos não estão ocultos um do outro. Acredito, pelas críticas, que alguns dos mundos que eles visitam são distópicos.
Encontrado com uma pesquisa no Google Livros por telepatia "lepping"
Encontrei uma correspondência melhor em Os Mestres da Solidão de Marvin Kaye e Parke Godwin.
In the millennium after a global war, society in the former United States has splintered into groups. The main group in the story, the Coven, live in a pre-industrial Native American lifestyle, but one of growing population and power. Many members have mild telepathic powers, which opens the corridors of power to those capable of "lep". Lep allows the Coven to form larger social groups, but isolation from these groups drives one mad.
The other primary group, The City, retains their former technological lifestyle in the remains of the east coast megapolis. They spend their lives involved in immortal solitary scientific research, meeting rarely and communicating only when their research overlaps. The few thousand remaining City dwellers separate themselves from the "dirty" Coven through the use of the Self Gate, an electronic barrier that drives lesser minds insane. To protect idle attempts to breach it, the City also employs a small mercenary army to act as a police force outside the Gate.
Encontrado com uma pesquisa por telepatia lepping na pesquisa regular do Google, que trouxe uma revisão em Cryonics Magazine de julho 2005.