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Author: Dick, Philip K. and Nelson, Ray
Title: The Ganymede Takeover
Publisher: Ace Books, New York
Pages: 157 pp.
Date: 1967
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:In this satiric novel intelligent worm-like beings from Ganymede, moon of Jupiter, conquer the Earth despite the best efforts of such individuals as Rudolph Balkani, Chief of the Bureau of Psychedelic Research, who has been working on a mind-blocking weapon. The world that Ganymede conquered is in fact devoted on all levels to the use of psychedelics, and the novel raises questions about the nature of "reality" as the action unfolds.




Author: Lupoff, Richard A.
Title: One Million Centuries
Publisher: Lancer Books, New York
Pages: 352 pp.
Date: 1967
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:A man of the twentieth century is thrust forward in time to the world of the unimaginably distant future. As he explores the civilization he finds himself among, he learns that the people of the era habitually chew samra, a hallucinogenic drug, and a woman he meets takes him on a samra trip. It is a soaring visionary experience in which he perceives the birth and death of the solar system.






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