SOLVED. SciFi Short Stories: Collection by One Author published in the 60s or 70s. Some of the shorts included a boy with a telepathic dog (more in comments). [s]

[Trevor]

Some of the shorts included a boy with a telepathic dog, a girl who is psychic who someone helps escape from her lifelong hospital prison, and aliens who can "think around corners."

This book was read in the late 80s or early 90s and I found a copy again in the early 2000s. The book is definitely called "The * Man" (* I can not remember this word!) and was a collection of shorts, I think, by a somewhat lesser known author at the time.

This was not written for YA though it certainly was fine for that age category. This might be really crazy but I remember the cover of the edition that I had was a lot of black and yellow and maybe some brown.

It is possible that the name of the telepathic/psychic dog was Billy.

[Andy Phillips]

Regarding the telepathic dog, can you rule out A Boy and His Dog? It's a relatively short story and I've read it in a collection. It's possible that it appears in other collections.

[Trevor]

Andy Phillips wrote: "Regarding the telepathic dog, can you rule out A Boy and His Dog? It's a relatively short story and I've read it in a collection. It's possible that it appears in other collections."

Can confirm, this is not A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison. Thank you though! That seemed to be the first one that pops up, of course, in every search making the one story I remember well almost useless for searching. :)

[Andy Phillips]

I thought that was too easy! The only book I can think of is The Demolished Man, which I haven't read but is something to do with telepathy. No dogs as far as I know, and not a collection of short stories.

[Genesistrine]

No dogs in The Demolished Man, just a lot of telepathic humans and typographical weirdness.

[Andy]

Possibly "The Golden Man" by Philip Dick The Golden Man - this link http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?3... has the list of stories in the book

[Trevor]

Solved! A discussion with my spouse triggered some memories that I was going to put here and along the way it lead to another search and yadda yadda yadda, found it.

The Counterfeit Man and Other Science Fiction Stories

I wasn't crazy about the dog thing! I was starting to think it had to be A Boy and His Dog and I was going crazy mixing the two up, but indeed, the wikipedia article for this describes it clearly. The dog was named Bobby, not Billy, though. I was so close!

Thanks all!

[Andy]

Great! Congratulations on finding your book