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| Author: | Silverberg, Robert |
| Title: | Downward to the Earth |
| Publisher: | New American Library, New York |
| Pages: | 176 pp. |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:The venom of a serpent found on an alien planet that has been colonized by Earthmen proves to have medicinal value, serving as a catalyst in limb-regeneration work; but when used in a different dosage it has psychological effects, evoking in Earthmen the illusion that they have been transformed into the elephant-like intelligent species that is the dominant native life-form of the planet. Illicit use of the drug for this purpose is common among the Earthmen stationed there. Protagonist, expiating old guilts, goes among the elephant-beings and eventually is admitted into ecstatic communion with them through use of the drug. | |
| Author: | Silverberg, Robert |
| Title: | A Time of Changes |
| Publisher: | New American Library, New York |
| Pages: | 220 pp. |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptors: | Drugs as mind-expanders, drugs as a means of communication |
| Annotation:Scene is a planet of the future dominated by stern culture that makes a fetish of privacy and personal reticence. Narrator obtains from a "primitive" culture on another continent a drug which attacks the basics of his native culture by making possible direct telepathic contact between minds. He attempts to found a subculture of love and openness based on use of the drug, but, although he is a prince of the realm, he is proscribed and hunted down. | |
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