Esper in Science Fiction
In Alfred Bester's novel "The Demolished Man", many of the main characters are espers.
In Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, there is a scene featuring a device called an "ESPER" which is used to manipulate photographs.
In the comic book series Espers by writer James D. Hudnall and various artists. It debuted in 1986 and has been since published by Eclipse Comics, Marvel Epic and Image Comics. The Espers are a team of people with various psychic powers who fight a global conspiracy. The comic is similar to the TV show Heroes (TV series), but precedes it by two decades.
Pow!, a British comic magazine featured the Esper Commandos, a group of powerful psychics secretly working for the British government, in their 1971 annual.
In Simon R Green's Deathstalker series, espers are a strain of humans with psychic powers.
In LRA Studios Pictures short-movie Espers, Espers are beings that look just like humans, except that they 1) have their names coded onto their right-arm and 2) are born with all kinds of powers (one specific power, though, exceeds them all). However, any power an Esper has can be stolen from him if he is killed by another Esper. Mimicry Espers, on the other hand, don't have to kill to possess another Esper's power(s). They only need to touch the Esper of interest to do so — but Mimicry Espers are a near-extinct race with only one still surviving on Earth. Espers are apparently from a planet called Esper. The Espers in the movie show a random assortment of powers like Telepathy, Telekinesis & Teleportation, but it is hinted that they have many more powers.
In Katsuhiro Otomo's science fiction masterpiece Akira, three espers are being kept at the military headquarters of Neo-Tokyo. Although they appear physically to be children, they have wizened features such as wrinkles and signs of age.
In the second Star Trek pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the term "esper" is used twice: first by Dr. Dehner to describe human beings that had displayed "flashes of insight," a dismissive description of anecdotal evidence of extrasensory perception abilities; the second by the mutated Gary Mitchell to describe himself and others like him who suddenly develop powerful paranormal abilities. In this case, he used the term to imply that his abilities made him superior to humans who lacked those abilities.
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