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| Author: | Silverberg, Robert |
| Title: | Dying Inside |
| Publisher: | Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York |
| Pages: | 245 pp. |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as means of communication |
| Annotation:Story takes place in 1976. Narrator is middle-aged New York intellectual who has had the power of telepathy since childhood and now is losing it. The power has embittered him by rendering him a freak, and he has taken pains to conceal knowledge of it from others. He tells how, in 1968, a close love relationship of his was terminated when he and his woman friend took LSD together; the trip had the unexpected effect of opening a two-way telepathic channel between them, so that not only could he read her mind as usual but she briefly had access to his, giving her a bad trip and causing her to recoil from him. | |
| Author: | Spinrad, Norman |
| Title: | No direction home |
| In: | Best Science Fiction of the Year, Vol. I, (Edited by Terry Carr) |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books, New York |
| Pages: | 227-244 |
| Date: | 1972 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Scene is United States of the near future in which psychedelic drugs of all kinds, including many not yet known, are legal and widely used on all levels of society. Story speculates in detail on the nature of a commercialized legal psychedelics industry and on the forms future drugs may take. | |
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