Belden, Wilanne Schneider
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1925- ) US author, mostly of Young Adult titles, whose Mind sequence – comprising Mind-Call (1981), Mind-Hold (1987) and Mind-Find (1988) – places a moderately dysfunctional family with Psi Powers in a Post-Holocaust environment, for they live in California after a vast earthquake has essentially destroyed the state. The interactions between two siblings, one a controlling empath and the other a sociopathic Telekinetic, move the long story slowly on. She has also written fantasies (see below). [JC]
Wilanne Schneider Belden
born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 14 October 1925
works
series
Mind
- Mind-Call (New York: Atheneum, 1981) [Mind: hb/Howell]
- Frankie! (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1987) [hb/Stewart Daniels]
- Mind-Hold (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1987) [Mind: hb/]
- Mind-Find (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1988) [Mind: hb/]
individual titles
- The Rescue of Ranor (New York: Atheneum, 1983) [hb/]
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