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| Author: | Benford, James |
| Title: | Pulse |
| Journal: | Fantastic Science Fiction, Vol 20, No. 6, 22-25 |
| Publisher: | Ultimate Publishing Company, New York |
| Date: | August 1971 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Young woman describes her LSD trip to her psycho-therapist: a vision of another world (she thinks it is the moon) marked by strange geological formations and flora. He listens patiently to her descriptions of this obviously illusory experience, but she maintains the drug actually transported her, and as she goes on talking he is drawn into the illusion and finds himself mysteriously transported (without the aid of the drug) to the world of her narrative. | |
| Author: | Lafferty, R. A. |
| Title: | Sky |
| In: | New Dimensions One, (Edited by Robert Silverberg) |
| Publisher: | Doubleday and Co., New York |
| Pages: | 149-161 |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Protagonists in future civilization make use of Sky, a drug derived from an amanita mushroom. Stated powers of this drug are to provide sensations of mastery and union-with-cosmos, especially during parachute drops. Protagonists attain successively more ecstatic states in series of Sky-enhanced parachute drops, until, seeking the perfect high, they deliberately fail to use their parachutes on one Sky trip and, after a descent marked by moments of stunning ecstasy, perish as they hit the ground. | |
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