Annotation: Alien beings known as Monks come to Earth and, to serve purposes of their own, distribute a variety of strange pills. One of these drugs is an intelligence-enhancer, another is a memory-destroyer, another induces instantaneous transport from one place to another. Story explores the effects of these and other alien-given drugs and the motivations of the aliens who distribute them. —————————————————————————————— Author: Silverberg, Robert Title: _Dying Inside_ Publisher: Charles Scribner’s and Sons, New York Pages: 245 pp. Date: 1972 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as means of communication Annotation: Story takes place in 1976. Narrator is middle-aged New York intellectual who has had the power of telepathy since childhood and now is losing it. The power has embittered him by rendering him a freak, and he has taken pains to conceal knowledge of it from others. He tells how, in 1968, a close love relationship of his was terminated when he and his woman friend took LSD together; the trip had the unexpected effect of opening a two-way telepathic channel between them, so that not only could he read her mind as usual but she briefly had access to his, giving her a bad trip and causing her to recoil from him. —————————————————————————————— Author: Spinrad, Norman Title: No direction home In: _Best Science Fiction of the Year_, Vol. I, (Edited by Terry Carr) Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York Pages: 227–244 Date: 1972 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: Scene is United States of the near future in which psychedelic drugs of all kinds, including many not yet known, are legal and widely used on all levels of society. Story speculates in detail on the nature of a commercialized legal psychedelics industry and on the forms future drugs may take. —————————————————————————————— Author: Bradley, Marion Zimmer Title: _Darkover Landfall_ Publisher: Daw Books, New York Pages: 160 pp. Date: 1973 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: Story describes the arrival on the extrasolar planet of Darkover of a shipload of colonists from Earth, and explores the impact on the Earthmen of the Ghost Wind, a native meteorological phenomenon that has psychedelic effects, caused by pollen, dust, or virus, which liberate ESP powers in their minds. The settlers, bombarded by hitherto unfamiliar sensory data, are plunged into conflict that transforms the group. —————————————————————————————— Author: Brunner, John Title: _The Stone That Never Came Down_ Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York Pages: 206 pp. Date: 1973 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders