HG Wells: a supervillain, the Invisible Man.
Larry Niven: Gil "the ARM" Hamilton; the protectors.
Julian May: Jack the Bodiless; Diamond Mask.
Poul Anderson: the UN-man; the Sensitive Man.
In addition, Anderson's Galactics, mentally generating an envelope of air and heat around themselves, fly not only through planetary atmospheres but also between stars faster than light. A few, but not many, superheroes can do this.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I simply can't buy that, Galactics mentally generating protective shields around themselves to travel FTL, all by a mere effort of will. "The Chapter Ends" was first pub. in DYNAMIC SCIENCE FICTION, Jan. 1954. Meaning it's one of Anderson's stories, written at a time when he was examining fantastic ideas that he soon abandoned--because they were scientifically implausible.
Ad astra! Sean
If I can suspend my disbelief about protective shields & FTL generated technologically, I can suspend my disbelief at the necessary technology being made small enough to fit inside a human body & made to respond to mental commands.
Kaor, Jim!
Ha!!! But, to use the analogy of 19th century steam power, it's more plausible to design and build steam powered ships than it would be to mentally boil water to create the steam needed for powering those ships.
And so on for both STL and FTL spaceships.
Ad astra! Sean
It is made a *bit* more plausible by the idea of human mental energies *directing* much larger cosmic energies.
To use your steam powered ships analogy, it is like brain waves being read by Musk's Neuralink technology to control the machinery that puts coal into the fire that boils the water.
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