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| Author: | Huxley, Aldous |
| Title: | Island |
| Publisher: | Harper & Row, New York |
| Pages: | 295 pp. |
| Date: | 1962 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:This Utopian novel, written thirty years after Huxley's anti-drug Brave New World and after his own experiments with LSD and mescaline, depicts another ideal commonwealth centering on the use of drugs: but in place of Brave New World's mind-deadening soma, the citizens of island use moksha, a hallucinogen very similar in effect to LSD, which induces mystical visions and intensifies religious experience. | |
| Author: | Burgess, Anthony |
| Title: | A Clockwork Orange |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton. New York |
| Pages: | 160 pp. |
| Date: | 1963 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptors: | Drugs as mind-controllers; Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Alex is a juvenile delinquent of the near future, who routinely uses such drugs as synthemesc or drencrom that are sold in neighborhood "milk bars" for hallucinogenic boosts. After committing a particularly atrocious assault, Alex is arrested and sentenced to a kind of brainwash reconditioning. With the aid of drugs and hypnotherapy he is conditioned against violence and turned loose to become a useful citizen. | |
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