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. —————————————————————————————— Author: Silverberg, Robert Title: Sundance In: _The Cube Root of Uncertainty_ (By Robert Silverberg) Publisher: Collier Books, New York Pages: 219–239 Date: 1970 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: Protagonist is part of a team of Earth men annihilating a semi-intelligent alien race on an extrasolar world prior to colonization of the planet. Protagonist is emotionally disturbed—his American Indian ancestry makes him bitter about the genocide he feels is taking place—and his sympathies toward the aliens lead him to take part in their rites and to consume a hallucinogenic plant, used by them, that induces synesthesia and a sense of racial communion. —————————————————————————————— Author: Vonnegut, Kurt Title: Welcome to the monkey house In: _Welcome to the Monkey House_ (By Kurt Vonnegut) Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York Pages: 28–47 Date: 1970 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers Annotation: At a time when the world’s population is 17 billion, compulsory ethical birth control comes into effect. On pain of fine, everyone must take birth control pills three times a day. The pills do not interfere with reproduction, but, by making people numb from the waist down, “take every bit of pleasure out of sex.” —————————————————————————————— Author: Benford, James Title: Pulse Journal: _Fantastic Science Fiction_, Vol. 20, No. 6, 22–25 Publisher: Ultimate Publishing Company, New York Date: August 1971 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: Young woman describes her LSD trip to her psychotherapist: a vision of another world (she thinks it is the moon) marked by strange geological formations and flora. He listens patiently to her descriptions of this obviously illusory experience, but she maintains the drug actually transported her, and as she goes on talking he is drawn into the illusion and finds himself mysteriously transported (without the aid of the drug) to the world of her narrative. —————————————————————————————— Author: Lafferty, R. A. Title: Sky In: _New Dimensions One_, (Edited by Robert Silverberg) Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York Pages: 149–161