Trivia / Rifters Trilogy

• Science Marches On: When Watts initially wrote the first book, he based the Psychic Powers in it off of a recent study that showed a very slight ESP-like effect in some sensory-deprived people; Watts simply extrapolated the effect into the Psychic Powers showed in the novel. However, by the time the later books came out, further studies had overturned the first study, casting doubt on the existence of the effect. Watts himself admitted this in the acknowledgements in the second and third books, but pretty much kept the effect in-universe because it was too cool to give up.

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