A psychic science fiction book I read in the 80's an MIT rock star that sings to a flower and it sings back
I read that story in the 80s, although it might be older.
It starts with a young genius who becomes a rock star. He's out practicing in a field, singing to a flower, when he realizes that he's sensitive enough to hear the flowers' vibrational reaction.
Next, a major city in the USA and one in the USSR are threatened with annihilation if the super powers don't disarm their nuclear and psychic weapons.
A major and a woman are consciously elevated when they find the singer's body in a coma at a (pre?) cryo facility.
story-identification psychic evolution
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I read that story in the 80s, although it might be older.
It starts with a young genius who becomes a rock star. He's out practicing in a field, singing to a flower, when he realizes that he's sensitive enough to hear the flowers' vibrational reaction.
Next, a major city in the USA and one in the USSR are threatened with annihilation if the super powers don't disarm their nuclear and psychic weapons.
A major and a woman are consciously elevated when they find the singer's body in a coma at a (pre?) cryo facility.
story-identification psychic evolution
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
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Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
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@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
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Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
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Jan 9 at 15:52
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I read that story in the 80s, although it might be older.
It starts with a young genius who becomes a rock star. He's out practicing in a field, singing to a flower, when he realizes that he's sensitive enough to hear the flowers' vibrational reaction.
Next, a major city in the USA and one in the USSR are threatened with annihilation if the super powers don't disarm their nuclear and psychic weapons.
A major and a woman are consciously elevated when they find the singer's body in a coma at a (pre?) cryo facility.
story-identification psychic evolution
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
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asked Jan 9 at 4:20
Rosemarie ForresterRosemarie Forrester
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I read that story in the 80s, although it might be older.
It starts with a young genius who becomes a rock star. He's out practicing in a field, singing to a flower, when he realizes that he's sensitive enough to hear the flowers' vibrational reaction.
Next, a major city in the USA and one in the USSR are threatened with annihilation if the super powers don't disarm their nuclear and psychic weapons.
A major and a woman are consciously elevated when they find the singer's body in a coma at a (pre?) cryo facility.
story-identification psychic evolution
story-identification psychic evolution
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
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asked Jan 9 at 4:20
Rosemarie ForresterRosemarie Forrester
162
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
4,08611357
asked Jan 9 at 4:20
Rosemarie ForresterRosemarie Forrester
162
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
4,08611357
edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
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edited Jan 9 at 5:26
Sava
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4,08611357
asked Jan 9 at 4:20
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asked Jan 9 at 4:20
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asked Jan 9 at 4:20
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Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
2
@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
1
Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
– Otis
Jan 9 at 15:52
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Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
2
@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
1
Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
– Otis
Jan 9 at 15:52
Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
2
2
@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
1
1
Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
– Otis
Jan 9 at 15:52
Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
– Otis
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Star Fire by Ingo Swann.
Dan Meriweather is the rock star who has psychic abilities. From the book:
It had happened in a country meadow while he was at work on composing a new song. The words resisted for a while, then fell into place. And with their ordering had come the music. He was pleased and sang it, tentatively, to a flower nearby, a small one with three delicate, pointed creamy petals. When he finished singing it, there was an echo. At least so he had thought. But it persisted and did not die away. Reverberations in his guitar strings? But they had quieted. It was the flower trembling, singing back
to him. And then he understood that whatever else that special awareness might
be, it had ears beyond ears and eyes beyond eyes. That had been several years
ago, but the delicate sound lingered in his mental corridors. He had been
curious enough to look the plant's name up in a wild-flower guide: trillium.
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It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
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Star Fire by Ingo Swann.
Dan Meriweather is the rock star who has psychic abilities. From the book:
It had happened in a country meadow while he was at work on composing a new song. The words resisted for a while, then fell into place. And with their ordering had come the music. He was pleased and sang it, tentatively, to a flower nearby, a small one with three delicate, pointed creamy petals. When he finished singing it, there was an echo. At least so he had thought. But it persisted and did not die away. Reverberations in his guitar strings? But they had quieted. It was the flower trembling, singing back
to him. And then he understood that whatever else that special awareness might
be, it had ears beyond ears and eyes beyond eyes. That had been several years
ago, but the delicate sound lingered in his mental corridors. He had been
curious enough to look the plant's name up in a wild-flower guide: trillium.
edited Jan 9 at 16:29
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It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
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Star Fire by Ingo Swann.
Dan Meriweather is the rock star who has psychic abilities. From the book:
It had happened in a country meadow while he was at work on composing a new song. The words resisted for a while, then fell into place. And with their ordering had come the music. He was pleased and sang it, tentatively, to a flower nearby, a small one with three delicate, pointed creamy petals. When he finished singing it, there was an echo. At least so he had thought. But it persisted and did not die away. Reverberations in his guitar strings? But they had quieted. It was the flower trembling, singing back
to him. And then he understood that whatever else that special awareness might
be, it had ears beyond ears and eyes beyond eyes. That had been several years
ago, but the delicate sound lingered in his mental corridors. He had been
curious enough to look the plant's name up in a wild-flower guide: trillium.
edited Jan 9 at 16:29
RDFozz
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answered Jan 9 at 6:08
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It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
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Star Fire by Ingo Swann.
Dan Meriweather is the rock star who has psychic abilities. From the book:
It had happened in a country meadow while he was at work on composing a new song. The words resisted for a while, then fell into place. And with their ordering had come the music. He was pleased and sang it, tentatively, to a flower nearby, a small one with three delicate, pointed creamy petals. When he finished singing it, there was an echo. At least so he had thought. But it persisted and did not die away. Reverberations in his guitar strings? But they had quieted. It was the flower trembling, singing back
to him. And then he understood that whatever else that special awareness might
be, it had ears beyond ears and eyes beyond eyes. That had been several years
ago, but the delicate sound lingered in his mental corridors. He had been
curious enough to look the plant's name up in a wild-flower guide: trillium.
edited Jan 9 at 16:29
RDFozz
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answered Jan 9 at 6:08
KenMKenM
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Star Fire by Ingo Swann.
Dan Meriweather is the rock star who has psychic abilities. From the book:
It had happened in a country meadow while he was at work on composing a new song. The words resisted for a while, then fell into place. And with their ordering had come the music. He was pleased and sang it, tentatively, to a flower nearby, a small one with three delicate, pointed creamy petals. When he finished singing it, there was an echo. At least so he had thought. But it persisted and did not die away. Reverberations in his guitar strings? But they had quieted. It was the flower trembling, singing back
to him. And then he understood that whatever else that special awareness might
be, it had ears beyond ears and eyes beyond eyes. That had been several years
ago, but the delicate sound lingered in his mental corridors. He had been
curious enough to look the plant's name up in a wild-flower guide: trillium.
edited Jan 9 at 16:29
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answered Jan 9 at 6:08
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It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
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1
It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
1
1
It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
It amuses me that the trillium was found in meadow, when it is a forest plant. Research FTW!
– DavidW
Jan 9 at 14:51
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
@DavidW I'm amazed his psychic powers didn't find that error. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
– Organic Marble
Jan 9 at 15:10
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Pretty sure it's a duplicate of this question:scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85708/…
– KenM
Jan 9 at 5:49
Possible duplicate of Telepath pretending to be in coma
– Neo Darwin
Jan 9 at 10:50
2
@NeoDarwin, we don't propose duplicates for story ID questions unless it can be confirmed by both OPs. This is usually done by accepting an answer. If you think they're similar, you can make an answer here stating the book, referencing the other question. If that answer is accepted the questions are then that's good.
– Edlothiad
Jan 9 at 11:13
1
Potentially better duplicate target at scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192518/…. (Note to Rosemarie: All this "duplicate" stuff doesn't mean your question is improper -- it's just site administration to help future searchers by connecting questions about the same story. Welcome to the site.)
– Otis
Jan 9 at 15:52