From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication From ‘Analog’

Open this book of stories from Analog (formerly Astounding), and explore о most basic aspect of coexistence: communication. The sentient mind is too complex for communication to be simple. even if two speakers share the same language. What happens when the other mind's orientation is light-years distant?

Light-years, in Jack Vance's "The Gift of Gab," bring us a race of beings whose mutual understanding eliminates the need to communicate. In "Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper, it is years of time we attempt to cross—fifty thousand of them, to find on ancient Martian civilization's Rosetta Stone. The distance in "Duplex,'' by Verge Foray, is as close as the two hemispheres of one man's brain.

Sixteen stories face the problems of communication from sixteen different angles—from the function of telepaths as syntax interpreters ("The Pipers Son,” Lewis Podgett), to the function of syntax as jailer or liberator of human thought, in Anthony Boucher’s "Barrier."

Accompany Christopher Anvil, Eric Frank Russell, George O. Smith, and others FROM MIND TO MIND — through art, through bureaucracies, and even through a galactic game of "Operator."

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Barrier by Anthony Boucher
The Signals by Francis Carter
The Gift of Gab by Jack Vance
Top Secret by Eric Frank Russell
Meihem in ce Klasrum by Dolton Edwards
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper
Minds Meet by Paul Ash
Two-Way Communication by Christopher Anvil
Duplex by Verge Foray
Sailing Through Program Management by Al Charmatz
Beam Pirate by George O. Smith
From Time to Time by Bruce Stanley Burdick
Shapes to Come by Edward Wellen
The Piper's Son by Lewis Padgett
Babel II by Christopher Anvil
Collaboration by Mark C. Jarvis