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| Author: | Dickson, Gordon R. |
| Title: | The R-Master |
| Publisher: | Lippincott, Philadelphia |
| Pages: | 216 pp. |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:In the middle of the 21st century an intelligence-enhancing drug called Reninase-47 has come into wide use. Though normally it simply stimulates the thought process, R-47 occasionally does massive damage to the mind, and in a few cases creates a super-genius, an R-master. Protagonist's brother takes R-47 and suffers brain damage. In order to help him, protagonist also takes the drug and unexpectedly emerges from treatment as an R-master, a member of an extraordinary elite group, and from another R-master he learns of the need for a vast reorganization of governmental policies. He becomes a revolutionary leader and works toward a transformation of society. | |
| Author: | Free, Colin |
| Title: | The Soft Kill |
| Publisher: | Berkley Books, New York |
| Pages: | 159 pp. |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:Protagonist is a scientist stationed aboard an orbiting research station of the far future. Needing a holiday, he is transferred to a place called HighTown—an overpopulated city where a totalitarian government maintains control by dosing the citizens with a variety of tranquilizing and euphoric drugs. Novel explores the effect of government-by-chemistry. | |
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