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| Author: | Silverberg, Robert |
| Title: | Sundance |
| In: | The Cube Root of Uncertainty (By Robert Silverberg) |
| Publisher: | Collier Books, New York |
| Pages: | 219-239 |
| Date: | 1970 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Protagonist is part of a team of Earth men annihilating a semi-intelligent alien race on an extrasolar world prior to colonization of the planet. Protagonist is emotionally disturbed—his American Indian ancestry makes him bitter about the genocide he feels is taking place—and his sympathies toward the aliens lead him to take part in their rites and to consume a hallucinogenic plant, used by them, that induces synesthesia and a sense of racial communion. | |
| Author: | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Title: | Welcome to the monkey house |
| In: | Welcome to the Monkey House (By Kurt Vonnegut) |
| Publisher: | Delacorte Press, New York |
| Pages: | 28-47 |
| Date: | 1970 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:At a time when the world's population is 17 billion, compulsory ethical birth control comes into effect. On pain of fine, everyone must take birth control pills three times a day. The pills do not interfere with reproduction, but, by making people numb from the waist down, "take every bit of pleasure out of sex." | |
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