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| Author: | Scortia, Thomas N. |
| Title: | The weariest river |
| In: | Future City, (Edited by Roger Elwood) |
| Publisher: | Trident Press, New York |
| Pages: | 108-148 |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as euphorics |
| Annotation:The scene is about 350 years from now. An immortality treatment has been perfected and the world has become a savagely overcrowded, polluted urban sprawl in which people live forever. Drugs are the main refuge from boredom among the immortals. The protagonist is the inventor of the immortality serum, whose life is spent in an endless search for illegal drugs to palliate his guilt and spiritual malaise. | |
| Author: | Spinrad, Norman |
| Title: | The weed of time |
| Journal: | Vertex, Vol. 1, No. 3 |
| Publisher: | Mankind Publishing Co., Los Angeles |
| Pages: | 58, 92-93 |
| Date: | 1973 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:An exploratory mission to the fifth planet of the star Tau Ceti in 2048 discovers a plant that is given the name of Tempis ceti, seeds and leaves of which have a psychedelic property: they destroy the linear perception of time and enable the subject to view all moments along his lifespan simultaneously. Seeds of the plant prove to be fertile on Earth and the drug comes into common use. Protagonist is a time-drug user whose simultaneous perception of his 110-year life-span sends him to a mental hospital. | |
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