List of female psychics and seers in SF
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Psychics, seers (and seeresses) fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, telekinetics, telepaths. These are carefully distinguished "mental powers", as opposed to "magical powers" - an ostensibly scientific study. Often these powers are enhanced by crystals.
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- Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Keepers of darkover towers are commonly virgin women, but see The Forbidden Tower.
- Octavia Butler, . Wild Seed and sequelae.
- Julius Fast. The League of Grey-Eyed Women (1970)
- Karen Feinberg. "The Sender of Dreams," Amazon Quarterly (Berkeley, CA) July 1974. Reprinted in The Lesbian Reader, edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana, Oakland, CA, Amazon Press, 1975. [psychic lesbians]
- Jane Fletcher. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - psychic powers, especially healing, and especially healing for the purposes of inducing parthenogenesis, are prized in this all-woman world
- Sally Miller Gearhart. The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women (1978)
- Camarin Grae. Paz (Blazon Books, 1984) (A woman has an accident and finds that she now has the power to change what people believe.)
- Sam Merwin. Sex War (sort-of anti-feminist story of the descendants of Amazons plotting to take over the world through genetics & parthenogenesis. the Amazons have psychic powers. -- lq 5/14/00)
- Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing
- Jean Stewart. The Isis novels
- Theodore Sturgeon. More than Human. Includes Jane, who is telekinetic, and Bonnie and Beanie, African-American twins who can teleport themselves.
- Sarah Waters. Affinity (1999, UK) (A women in a victorian women's prison may be a sapphist, or a spiritualist, or both, or something else altogether. Not necessarily sf/f but read it anyway.)