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Author: Dick, Philip K.
Title: Now Wait for Last Year
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York
Pages: 214 pp.
Date: 1966
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:In the war-torn world of the 21st century, Americans escape from the horrors of their time by addictive use of JJ-180, a drug that allows the consciousness to detach from present time and return to earlier eras, or even to travel forward in time. The protagonist, initially attempting only to deal with his wife's addiction to the time-travel drug, eventually becomes entangled in global politics and the progress of the interstellar war as he himself, under the influence of JJ-180, oscillates backward and forward in time.




Author: Harrison, Harry
Title: Make Room! Make Room!
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York
Pages: 213 pp.
Date: 1966
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Drugs as euphorics
Annotation:The year is 1999 and the population of New York City is 35 million. In this hideously overcrowded society marijuana and LSD are the chief means of escape from stress, and their use is far more pervasive than it is today. Filmed as Soylent Green.






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