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| Author: | Disch, Thomas |
| Title: | Camp Concentration |
| Publisher: | Doubleday & Company, New York |
| Pages: | 184 pp. |
| Date: | 1968 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as intelligence-enhancers |
| Annotation:The novel is the journal of a U. S. political prisoner of the near future who is assigned to observe and record the progress of an experiment in which volunteer prisoners at a secret internment camp are treated with Pallidine, an intelligence-enhancing drug derived from the organism that causes syphilis. In the course of nine months the drug turns the prisoners into supermen of extraordinary mental capacity while destroying their bodies with disease. | |
| Author: | Herbert, Frank |
| Title: | The Santaroga Barrier |
| Publisher: | Berkley Books, New York |
| Pages: | 255 pp. |
| Date: | 1968 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:An outsider penetrates a remote California valley inhabited by reclusive farmers who discourage all contact with strangers. He discovers that they have built a society based on consumption of Jaspers—a psychedelic drug going far beyond acid in its effects, fostering a sense of community through its ability to allow takers to perceive the ultimate relationships linking all aspects of the universe. He is drawn into the valley society and becomes part of it. | |
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