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| Author: | Spinrad, Norman |
| Title: | Bug Jack Barron |
| Publisher: | Walker Books, New York |
| Pages: | 327 pp. |
| Date: | 1969 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:In the closing years of the 20th century the work of a foundation for life-extension research becomes the center of fierce political controversy. The tensions growing out of the search for immortality are depicted against the background of a near-future world in which marijuana and the psychedelic drugs are legal and widely consumed. | |
| Author: | Aldiss, Brian W. |
| Title: | Barefoot in the Head |
| Publisher: | Doubleday & Company, New York |
| Pages: | 281 pp. |
| Date: | 1970 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-injurers |
| Annotation:In Europe of the near future, political tensions have led to the bombing of the entire continent by the Arab state of Kuwait with psychedelic weapons—odorless, tasteless, and enormously potent. In the aftermath of the war all of Europe finds itself on a perpetual LSD trip, since the drug's aftereffects prove ineradicable. Industrial society breaks down, reason becomes extinct, and the novel itself dissolves into a Joycean verbal phantasmagoria as the old society gives way to one in which insanity is the norm. | |
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