![]() ![]() Rather, it gives us a window on to a subculture, the lives of dropouts and experimental rock groups in Greenwich Village right now. Your willingness to just go with these kinds of sections without any prelude will likely dictate your enjoyment of the novel.īut that, for me, isn’t what the book is really about. “Excuse me,” said another tall blue lobster, making its way to the john. They set about tracking down the source of this, which, as the cover gives away, turns out to be extra-terrestrial.Īs you can imagine, this gets very surreal quickly. They discover people affected by a mysterious new drug called Reality Pills, which cause psychedelic hallucinations to physically appear, such as a kid able to create butterflies and another person with their own halo. So, what is this book about? On a basic plot level it is about Chester and Mike (fictionalised versions of the author and his sometimes co-writer) who seem to be sort of hippies living in 1977. Some days I wonder if I am the only person in fandom that isn’t getting high and floating up among The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice.Īs such, it was only a matter of time before we got a real hip novel that fully blurs the boundary between fantastic and the psychedelic. ![]() From Aldiss’ Acid War stories in New Worlds, through Dick’s Faith of Our Fathers in Dangerous Visions, to Brunner’s Productions of Time in Fantasy & Science Fiction. ![]() Drugs seem to be everywhere these days in science fiction. ![]()
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