| 1953 W. M. Miller Jr. Crucifixus Etiam in T. Shippey Oxf. Bk. Sci. Fiction (1992) 243
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In the meantime, we'll build pressurized cities close to the wells. If everything pans out, we'll get a lot of colonists here, and gradually condition them to live in a seven or eight psi atmosphere—which is about the best we can hope to get.
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| 1984 D. Brin Practice Effect viii.ii. 168
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The Practice Effect was at least partly a psi power exercised by humans on this world.
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| 1989 J. M. Dillard Lost Years x. 205
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When she was old enough to be told about her psi , she'd worried that she suffered from some type of madness.
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| 1990 Omni Nov. 100/1
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Is parapsychology a dying field? Lack of funding and the demise of several top psi laboratories suggest that parapsychology may well be on the rocks.
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| 1992 SFRA Rev. July–Aug.–Sept. 6
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Blackburn identified Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 The Coming Race as the first psi novel published and later referred to‥as an early speculation about the reality of the mind.
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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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| 2005 Apex Sci. Fiction & Horror Digest Fall 12
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She had some pretty sharp psi-skills so she could mess with my brain while we were screwing.
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