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| Author: | Silverberg, Robert |
| Title: | The World Inside |
| Publisher: | Doubleday and Co., New York |
| Pages: | 201 pp. |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptors: | Drugs as mind-expanders, drugs as a means of communication |
| Annotation:In world of 24th century, most of mankind lives in thousand-story apartment buildings each of which has a population of more than 800,000. Chapter three of the novel follows the adventures of a musician who, after performing at a concert, drugs himself with a multiplexer, a mind-expanding drug that temporarily induces a telepathic contact simultaneously with all 800,000 residents of his building, so that he perceives their lives and thoughts in one vast intricate construct. | |
| Author: | Davis, Grania |
| Title: | My head's in a different place now |
| In: | Universe Two, (Edited by Terry Carr) |
| Publisher: | Ace Books, New York |
| Pages: | 151-172 |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Young American married couple, weary of life on welfare in a large city, travel into Central American jungle in search of a drug-using primitive tribe of which they have heard. Eventually they find an Eden-like place where the natives, though dominated by fears of supernatural beings, seem whole and happy. The Americans discover hallucinogenic mushrooms near the village, begin using them, and settle into an amiable life of tripping and telepathic contact with animals, insects, and plants. As story ends they are planning to turn on the unsuspecting villagers. | |
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