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In fiction, an esper (stylized as ESPer) is an individual capable of telepathy and other similar paranormal abilities. The term was apparently coined in this sense by Alfred Bester in his 1950 short story "Oddy and Id"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SF Citations for OED )〕 and is derived from the abbreviation ESP for extrasensory perception. ==Esper in science fiction== In Alfred Bester's novel ''The Demolished Man'', a significant portion of human population are espers, including many of the main characters. In Ridley Scott's ''Blade Runner'', there is a scene featuring a device called an "ESPER" that is used to manipulate photographs. The comic book series ''Espers'', by writer James D. Hudnall and other artists, debuted in 1986 and has been since published by Eclipse Comics, Marvel Epic and Image Comics. The Espers are a team of people with psychic powers who fight a global conspiracy. ''Pow!'', a British comic magazine, featured the Esper Commandos, a group of powerful psychics secretly working for the British government, in their 1971 annual. In Simon R. Green's ''Deathstalker'' series, espers are a strain of humans with psychic powers. In Katsuhiro Otomo's science fiction manga ''Akira'', three espers are being kept at the military headquarters of Neo-Tokyo. Although they appear physically to be children, they have signs of age such as wrinkles and wizened features. In the second ''Star Trek'' pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the term "esper" is used twice: first by Dr. Dehner to describe human beings that had displayed "flashes of insight," a dismissive description of anecdotal evidence of extrasensory perception abilities; the second by the mutated Gary Mitchell to describe himself and others like him who suddenly develop powerful paranormal abilities. In this case, he used the term to imply that his abilities made him superior to humans who lacked those abilities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esper (fiction)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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