psionics

If you say psionics is indistinguishable from magic, you miss the point: magic is supernatural whereas psionics is based on a yet-undiscovered set of laws of nature that can be investigated, not by priests, but by parapsychologists at Duke University.

MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2) 2008

The other thing that crops up in far to much SF for my liking is "psionics", and especially breeds of people who have an innate talent for it.

Again With The Future Is Here! Matthew Sanborn Smith 2008

One strike for using psionics, especially with the “elan” thing.

RPG Superstar 2009: Villain Round « Geek Related 2009

Yet they are fantasy-like in that there are sword-fights, and 'magic', though this is in the form of psionics --- telepathy, telekinesis and the like, all of which are deemed to have scientific explanations.

A Darkover Retrospective: Marion Zimmer Bradley's writing beginnings nissa_amas_katoj 2009

A pro-psionics/supernatural position seems to be the very opposite of humility.

Robin Hanson Video, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Telzey is tapped to investigate a series of murders, alien teleport portal networks, a conspiracy, so plenty of psionics, gunplay, and a scrambling wilderness duel to be had, all before her birthday.

Superhero Prose Fiction: Hub - Telzey Amberdon 6 The Lion Game Blue Tyson 2008

Better rattle through law school first; then, with that out of the way, she could start hunting around to see who in the Federation was qualified to instruct a genius-level novice in the proper handling of psionics ...

Superhero Prose Fiction: Hub - Telzey Amberdon Blue Tyson 2008

Telzey is tapped to investigate a series of murders, alien teleport portal networks, a conspiracy, so plenty of psionics, gunplay, and a scrambling wilderness duel to be had, all before her birthday.

Superhero Prose Fiction: Hub - Telzey Amberdon Blue Tyson 2008

Better rattle through law school first; then, with that out of the way, she could start hunting around to see who in the Federation was qualified to instruct a genius-level novice in the proper handling of psionics ...

Superhero Prose Fiction: Hub - Telzey Amberdon 1 Novice Blue Tyson 2008

MZB was still writing what was being published as SF... the situation that exists today of low-overhead publishing on line and print on demand and self-publication with the web for promotion and publicity and ordering, didn't exist way back when... swords and psionics space and planetary fantasy is rife today with ebooks and paranormal/furistic romances and some science fiction romance.

Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010