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| Author: | Bradley, Marion Zimmer |
| Title: | Darkover Landfall |
| Publisher: | Daw Books, New York |
| Pages: | 160 pp. |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Story describes the arrival on the extrasolar planet of Darkover of a shipload of colonists from Earth, and explores the impact on the Earthmen of the Ghost Wind, a native meteorological phenomenon that has psychedelic effects, caused by pollen, dust, or virus, which liberate ESP powers in their minds. The settlers, bombarded by hitherto unfamiliar sensory data, are plunged into conflict that transforms the group. | |
| Author: | Brunner, John |
| Title: | The Stone That Never Came Down |
| Publisher: | Doubleday and Co., New York |
| Pages: | 206 pp. |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Scene is London, 1980's: a time of chaos with World War III imminent. Chemists discover drug called VC—viral coefficient—which has the property of greatly intensifying sensory perception and amplifying intelligence and memory. Drug has ability to multiply in proper environment like living organism. When an unemployed teacher who has had an experimental dose of VC donates blood to central bloodbank, he unwittingly spreads VC widely to the world at large, causing an epidemic of sanity in which world leaders, now greatly more intelligent, take steps to abolish warfare and establish an ideally rational society. | |
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