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Author: | Nelson, Ray |
Title: | Time travel for pedestrians |
In: | Again, Dangerous Visions, (Edited by Harlan Ellison) |
Publisher: | Doubleday and Co., New York |
Pages: | 140-159 |
Date: | 1972 |
Format: | Short story |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
Annotation:Protagonist, using crushed "flower seeds" plus auto-hypnotic techniques, embarks on a trip in which his consciousness perceives past existences. He travels mentally to medieval northern Europe, to Egypt shortly after the time of Jesus, to medieval southern France, and other eras. |
Author: | Niven, Larry |
Title: | The fourth profession |
In: | Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. I, (Edited by Terry Carr) |
Publisher: | Ballantine Books, New York |
Pages: | 293-340 |
Date: | 1972 |
Format: | Short novel |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
Annotation:Alien beings known as Monks come to Earth and, to serve purposes of their own, distribute a variety of strange pills. One of these drugs is an intelligence-enhancer, another is a memory-destroyer, another induces instantaneous transport from one place to another. Story explores the effects of these and other alien-given drugs and the motivations of the aliens who distribute them. |
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