mind-controlled adj.
of a device or a being: controlled by another person’s thoughts
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1938 Life Eternal in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. ii. 73/2
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Otto Binder
Eando Binder
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Anton York willed himself out of his hypnotic state of bodily suspension. Mind-controlled relays turned on the various mechanisms that supplied heat, air, and artificial gravity.
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1947 Children of the Lens in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 48/2
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Edward E. Smith
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He launched his ultimately lethal weapon, the Worsel-designed, Thorndyke-built, mind-controlled projector of thought-borne vibrations which decomposed the molecules without which thought and life itself could not exist.
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1949 Pillars of Delight in Amazing Stories Dec. 31/2
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Richard S. Shaver
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Here in this world of motile mind-controlled force we can shape our thoughts into things about us.
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1954 Top Secret Boomerang in Fantastic Universe Sept. 91/1
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Richard R. Smith
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With the mind-controlled teleporters, he was able to bring to his office chairs, filing cabinets, anything that was normally needed during the day and he didn’t have to move a tentacle.
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1965 X Factor 178
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Andre Norton
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What has happened, a time twist? Or are we now mind-controllled?
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1976 Who’s Who in Science Fiction 127
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Brian Ash
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His own stories include a number of novels, among them Hell’s Pavement (US 1955), which tells of an oppressed, mind-controlled society in the twenty-first century.
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1984 The Adversary 202
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Julian May
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If I wipe out the schematics and certain irreplaceable pieces of manufacturing apparatus—fleck-etchers, photonic alloying machines, mind-controlled micromanipulators—no one will ever build the Guderian device here.
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2006 Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec. 144
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This one’s got it all: high adventure, romance, booze, mind-controlled zombies, and, worst threat of all, meddling aunties.
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2009 Heaven’s Reach 376
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David Brin
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Much harder was the physical effort, helping her enter places where Gillian Baskin had hidden the secretes, working with a mind-controlled Suessi to steal them, then having both agents smuggle out the material by separate routes.
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2015 Drosten’s Curse 213
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A. L. Kennedy
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Putta really didn’t like annoying people / beings / creatures / mythical mind-controlled assassins / octopus monsters—even though it seemed that he almost always did.
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antedating 1938
Earliest cite
"Eando Binder", in Thrilling Wonder Stories
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