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Author: Guin, Wyman
Title: Beyond bedlam
In: Living Way Out
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Pages: 155-208
Date: 1967 (1951 First Issue)
Format: Short novel
Descriptor: Drugs as panaceas
Annotation:During the late 20th century drugs were developed to aid schizophrenics by permitting their warring inner personalities to live side by side, controlling the body alternately. By the following century the element of schizophrenia is recognized in all persons and it becomes mandatory to use the drugs, giving everyone a prime ego and an alternate ego, in fact separate persons, who undergo drug-induced shifts of dominance every five days. The author explores the concept of ego-shift by following the fortunes of a number of protagonists whose doubled personalities engage in complex interactions.




Author: Collins, Hunt (Pseud. of Evan Hunter)
Title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Publisher: Pyramid Books, New York
Pages: 190 pp.
Date: 1956
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Drugs as reality-testers
Annotation:The novel, set in a near-future Earth dominated by advertising and television, describes the conflict between two groups of differing social philosophies: the Vikes, who advocate vicarious pleasure and indulge in heroin-like narcotics to escape from reality, and the Rees, or Realists, an austere Puritan movement hostile to all mind-altering substances.






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