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_. —————————————————————————————— Author: Aldiss, Brian W. Title: The night that all time broke loose In: _Dangerous Visions_ (Edited by Harlan Ellison) Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York Pages: 151–160 Date: 1967 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: Comic story about _time gas_, piped through mains to suburban houses the way heating gas is distributed. Using _time gas_, subscribers can dial themselves back to any period in their lives they prefer to re-experience. Story concerns a break in the gas main that floods the region with _time gas_ and touches off a great gusher that carries mankind back into prehistoric times, with dinosaurs imminent as the time-effects grow more powerful. —————————————————————————————— Author: Anderson, Chester Title: _The Butterfly Kid_ Publisher: Pyramid Books, New York Pages: 190 pp. Date: 1967 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: In this comic novel, set among the drug-using counter-culturists of Greenwich Village, trouble starts when _Reality Pills_ become available—a “projective hallucinogen” that creates hallucinations visible not only to the user but to those around him. It develops that _Reality Pills_ have been invented and distributed by blue lobster-like beings from another planet in order to facilitate their conquest of Earth—a conquest ultimately thwarted by the dedication of a fearless band of hippies. —————————————————————————————— Author: Dick, Philip K. and Nelson, Ray Title: _The Ganymede Takeover_ Publisher: Ace Books, New York Pages: 157 pp. Date: 1967 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: In this satiric novel intelligent worm-like beings from Ganymede, moon of Jupiter, conquer the Earth despite the best efforts of such individuals as Rudolph Balkani, Chief of the Bureau of Psychedelic Research, who has been working on a mind-blocking weapon. The world that Ganymede conquered is in fact devoted on all levels to the use of psychedelics, and the novel raises questions about the nature of “reality” as the action unfolds. —————————————————————————————— Author: Lupoff, Richard A. Title: _One Million Centuries_ Publisher: Lancer Books, New York Pages: 352 pp. Date: 1967 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders