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Author: | Dick, Philip K. |
Title: | We can remember it for you wholesale |
Journal: | Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 30, No. 4, 3-16 |
Publisher: | Mercury Press, Inc., New York |
Date: | April 1966 |
Format: | Short story |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
Annotation:A technique is developed by which, using a hypnotic drug called narkidrine, false memories can be implanted in a human brain. The memory-implant technique can be used to provide the vicarious illusion of pleasurable experience, but also—as the story unfolds—we see that it can be used for purposes of political intrigue. |
Author: | Dick, Philip K. |
Title: | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
Publisher: | Doubleday & Company, New York |
Pages: | 278 pp. |
Date: | 1965 |
Format: | Novel |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
Annotation:An illegal hallucinogen, Can-D, allows Earth colonists on Mars, Venus, and other nearby worlds to stave of the crushing boredom of daily life by permitting them to enter a highly schematicized common fantasy world where they share in the adventures of two imaginary lovers who are larger-than-life Hollywood dream-figures. Complications ensue when a competitive reality-destroying drug, Chew-Z, is introduced surreptitiously by beings from another solar system. |
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