| 1957 R. Silverberg Warm Man in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction May 55/2
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Irony: the compulsive empath overloaded and burned out by a compulsive sender who'd been bottled up.
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| 1968 H. Ellison in Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 71/1
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That was Eddie Burma's problem. He was an empath. He felt. Deep inside himself, on a level most people never even know exists, he felt for the world.
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| 1971 U. K. LeGuin Vaster Than Empires & More Slow in E. S. Rabkin Sci. Fiction: Historical Anthol. (1983) 519
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The empath stood motionless for a long time.
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| 1973 A. McCaffrey in Analog Sci. Fiction/Fact July 24/2
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We are both agreed that she is a broadcasting empath?
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| 1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 33
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She must be an empath!
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| 1991 M. Weiss King's Test iv.iii.323
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The empath nearly shriveled up into a ball.
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| 1991 M. Weiss King's Test iv. ii. 315
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Empaths are often paired with the Loti.
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| 1992 P. David Imzadi (1993) 121
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Deanna's no mind reader. She's an empath. She senses moods, emotions, feelings.
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| 1994 B. Hambly Crossroad vi.81
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Trained as empaths‥trained to the psion drive.
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| 1994 Sci Fi Entertainment Aug. 20/3
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With Richard Joseph Paul as a heroic ‘empath’ embroiled in a battle with an evil gang.
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| 1995 Interzone Mar. 55/1
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The novella “Need” (1960) is one of the best of his psi -stories, but it is also one of the most harrowing; here the possession of a superhuman sensitivity becomes an alienating force in its own right, and the self-knowledge which the protagonist gains by virtue of his association with the empath is coldly unflattering.
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| 1999 C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek Next Generation: Dyson Sphere ix. 144
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I've had some doubts about his judgment, having heard that he plays poker with an empath and a card-counting android.
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