![]() This leads to an intense interest in whether his ability has been inherited, and he begins to look into his family's past. As the story begins, young Matty Telemachus, fantasizing about his cousin Mary Alice, discovers that he has the ability to leave his body, or to astrally project. ![]() Spoonbenders takes place in the 1990s, the narrative shifting between present and past timelines. He is perhaps best known for his award-winning novella We Are All Completely Fine. They're just bending spoons.” Spoonbenders was Gregory's first novel not to fall squarely into either the science fiction or fantasy genre In a 2017 interview, Gregory noted that Spoonbenders had been optioned for a TV series by a screenwriter from Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy. Does anyone really need bent cutlery? There's something about the small scale of it. Gregory was inspired to write the novel by Uri Geller, a self-described psychic who made a name for himself bending spoons, supposedly with the power of his mind alone, on game shows in the 1970s: “It just struck me that it's the saddest of the psychic powers. ![]() Despite their dazzling “gifts” and renown on the daytime talk show circuit, the Telemachuses never truly benefit, monetarily or otherwise, from their powers. Daryl Gregory’s novel Spoonbenders (2017) follows the exploits of the Telemachuses, a family with psychic and telekinetic powers. ![]()
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