Os comerciantes da mente
Esta discussão Goodreads sugere que este é The Mind Traders , de Joan Carol Hunter Holly.
O autor original mencionou um livro muito semelhante ao descrito nesta pergunta:
- I read this book in 1975 or so; it featured a society in which people with telepathic powers were ranked by how many others they could dominate with their minds - some people were ranked as "threes" who could only dominate 3 others, while the top of the line were "nines" (I think). The main character was low-ranked, but learned (of course) that he was in fact far more powerful than he thought. I was reading a lot of Andre' Norton at the time - so this could be her. Any ideas?
Outro usuário lembrou o que aparentemente era o mesmo livro;
- Okay, this is just weird. I thought about this very book today while I was at work and am frustrated that I cannot recall the title. I remember that the whole thing takes place on an alien world where humanoids have varying powers and can control a certain number of others to perform duties. A human investigator goes there looking for missing humans. I hope someone recalls the title. I'm going to search for this myself.
O segundo usuário mais tarde identifica The Mind Traders como o título certo:
The Mind Traders by Joan Hunter Holly! Found it by being stubborn with Google search.
So, I guess you can call this one "solved?", if this IS the one you were remembering.
O primeiro usuário decide mais tarde que este é o livro que eles estavam procurando.
Uma descrição deste livro:
A place of crawling spiders and poisonous snakes where nightmares came true.. that was "The Black" where men were punished for challenging minds more powerful than their own. The detective from Earth feared The Black more than any torture his own planet could conceive. But he had to uncover the sinister plot that threatened Earth and all its people.
Então, é certamente definido em um planeta diferente da Terra.
Uma revisão da Amazon diz algo semelhante:
A human detective hunts a murderer on a planet with telepathic natives.
Eu obtive uma cópia impressa de The Mind Traders , e parece combinar tanto o livro na citação # 2 quanto talvez o descrito nesta questão, mas não o livro descrito na citação # 1 (ou seja, o personagem principal não era de baixa classificação, mas sim da Terra e, portanto, não tem poderes completamente).
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Defina um planeta diferente do planeta .
Sim. Está situado em Riga:
"Missing persons. Does this ring a bell—a flurry of missing persons six months ago that ran on for a few months than stopped abruptly?"
"All right," Morgan said, "so what about them."
"They now number twenty thousand!"
Morgan let his breath out and stared at Flabert.
"Missing with no trace," Flabert continued. "Vanished completely from Earth."
"Oh." The line of talk clicked into shape in Morgan's mind. "And you think they have literally vanished from Earth. To Riga.
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Nosso herói não tem capacidade de controlar os outros
Sim. Como um ser humano comum da Terra, ele não tem poderes de controle mental.
Brute strength was Earth's only possible contribution to this fight, and brute strength he had.
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Os locais são classificados por quantas pessoas podem controlar
Sim.
Morgan read the symbols, too. There was a woman with Twenty over her heart; there a man with Ten, and there an adolescent with thirty. The numbers only went by tens above the first ten. Below that they spaced by ones so there were Sixes interspersed with Fours, and even a lowly two.
No entanto, a classificação mais alta é Oitenta, não Dez e não há Nulos.
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Existe um elemento de agricultura e pessoas trabalhando em campos onde as pessoas mais baixas, os dois e os mais e os nulos gastam muito do seu tempo.
Sim. Como mencionado anteriormente, não parece haver "nulos" e a escala é um pouco diferente do que você descreveu, mas as pessoas com baixa classificação trabalham nos campos:
"Rather than keep you worrying, I'll get right to my point. As a Ten, you do a great deal of farm work, don't you?"
She nodded, and Jael said nothing.