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| Author: | Panshin, Alexei |
| Title: | How can we sink when we can fly? |
| In: | Four Futures, a science fiction anthology |
| Publisher: | Hawthorn Books, New York |
| Pages: | 94-130 |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Short novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:At some period in the future a drug called tempus is developed which enables people to travel backward in time, literally or perhaps in mind alone. Young people are required to take tempus journeys as part of the educational process. Story takes place in contemporary United States, c. 1970, and analyzes current problems by confronting the protagonist with a tempus-using visitor from the future. | |
| Author: | Sheckley, Robert |
| Title: | Down the digestive tract |
| In: | Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (By Robert Silverberg) |
| Publisher: | Doubleday and Co., New York |
| Pages: | 145-147 |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as reality-testers |
| Annotation:An underground chemist gives a friend a mixture of hallucinogenic drugs guaranteed to send him into a true trip. Friend waits impatiently for the hallucinations to hit. Chemist and friend are actually not human but alien insecto-reptilian creatures, and it turns out that the hallucination the friend has is that of being a human being in our contemporary world. | |
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