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Author: Panshin, Alexei
Title: How can we sink when we can fly?
In: Four Futures, a science fiction anthology
Publisher: Hawthorn Books, New York
Pages: 94-130
Date: 1971
Format: Short novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:At some period in the future a drug called tempus is developed which enables people to travel backward in time, literally or perhaps in mind alone. Young people are required to take tempus journeys as part of the educational process. Story takes place in contemporary United States, c. 1970, and analyzes current problems by confronting the protagonist with a tempus-using visitor from the future.




Author: Sheckley, Robert
Title: Down the digestive tract
In: Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? (By Robert Silverberg)
Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York
Pages: 145-147
Date: 1971
Format: Short story
Descriptor: Drugs as reality-testers
Annotation:An underground chemist gives a friend a mixture of hallucinogenic drugs guaranteed to send him into a true trip. Friend waits impatiently for the hallucinations to hit. Chemist and friend are actually not human but alien insecto-reptilian creatures, and it turns out that the hallucination the friend has is that of being a human being in our contemporary world.






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