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Author: Nelson, Ray
Title: Time travel for pedestrians
In: Again, Dangerous Visions, (Edited by Harlan Ellison)
Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York
Pages: 140-159
Date: 1972
Format: Short story
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:Protagonist, using crushed "flower seeds" plus auto-hypnotic techniques, embarks on a trip in which his consciousness perceives past existences. He travels mentally to medieval northern Europe, to Egypt shortly after the time of Jesus, to medieval southern France, and other eras.




Author: Niven, Larry
Title: The fourth profession
In: Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. I, (Edited by Terry Carr)
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Pages: 293-340
Date: 1972
Format: Short novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:Alien beings known as Monks come to Earth and, to serve purposes of their own, distribute a variety of strange pills. One of these drugs is an intelligence-enhancer, another is a memory-destroyer, another induces instantaneous transport from one place to another. Story explores the effects of these and other alien-given drugs and the motivations of the aliens who distribute them.






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