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The “Deryni” stories by Katherine Kurtz

They have men­tal and phys­i­cal pow­ers beyond the human norm: they can entrance with a glance, cre­ate light, heal wounds, and even tele­port long distances. 

They are mutants. They live among nor­mal humans, dis­tin­guished only by their pow­ers, oth­er­wise undis­tin­guish­able from any one else, dis­trust­ed and even hat­ed by both the gen­er­al pop­u­lace and peo­ple in author­i­ty because of their gifts. Some try to use their gifts for good, oth­ers for evil: some just try to exist. 

But they’re not the X‑Men and they’re not super­heroes: they’re the Deryni, a fan­ta­sy race and the sub­ject of sev­er­al books and short sto­ries by author Kather­ine Kurtz.

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“A Midsummer’s Nightmare” — Justice League

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All across the world, peo­ple are devel­op­ing super-pow­ers, and the estab­lished super-pow­ered beings are nowhere to be found. Called “sparks” and the phe­nom­e­non “spark­ing”, it is turn­ing the world into a super bat­tle­ground as gangs of sparks bat­tle for turf. Its a dream of some, of hav­ing super-pow­ers, that is turn­ing into a night­mare for the entire world.

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“Vision Machine”

What could hap­pen if there was the facil­i­ty to share your vision, lit­er­al­ly, with every­one else in the world? How would that change the way peo­ple see each oth­er and inter­act? How could that change the world? How could some­one else use that pow­er of com­mu­ni­ca­tion not to increase com­mu­ni­ca­tion but to lim­it it?

That’s the ques­tion posed in “Vision Machine”.

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‘The City of Doom’ by Maxwell Grant

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” — The Shad­ow knows!

A Maxwell Grant (aka Wal­ter B Gib­son) tale of The Shadow.

One by one, the indus­tries around the town of Hamp­st­ed have suf­fered impos­si­ble acci­dents, and each appar­ent­ly at the hands of their most trust­ed employ­ees. The toll in human lives is fright­ful, and the psy­chic toll on the cit­i­zens of Hamp­st­ed is even more oppres­sive. Such an implau­si­ble array of acci­dents draws the atten­tion of The Shad­ow, espe­cial­ly when one of his most val­ued agents, Har­ry Vin­cent, has dis­ap­peared inves­ti­gat­ing the scene.

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