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Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Drug Themes in Science Fiction written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography of novels and stories.
Author : Alaya Dawn Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545662893
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Love Is the Drug written by Alaya Dawn Johnson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Summer Prince, a novel that's John Grisham's The Pelican Brief meets Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain set at an elite Washington D.C. prep school. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with Roosevelt David, a homeland security agent, at a party for Washington DC's elite leads to Bird waking up in a hospital, days later, with no memory of the end of the night.Meanwhile, the world has fallen apart: A deadly flu virus is sweeping the nation, forcing quarantines, curfews, even martial law. And Roosevelt is certain that Bird knows something. Something about the virus--something about her parents' top secret scientific work--something she shouldn't know.The only one Bird can trust is Coffee, a quiet, outsider genius who deals drugs to their classmates and is a firm believer in conspiracy theories. And he believes in Bird. But as Bird and Coffee dig deeper into what really happened that night, Bird finds that she might know more than she remembers. And what she knows could unleash the biggest government scandal in US history.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572557
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmer Eldritch returns from the edge of the universe with a drug called Chew-D for the colonists of Mars who are under threat of god-like or satanic psychics that threaten to wage war against the human soul.
Author : Digby Diehl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Drug Themes in Fiction written by Digby Diehl and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471120384
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium
Author : Izumi Suzuki
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788739892
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Terminal Boredom written by Izumi Suzuki and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked out an innovative way to side-step the need for war, only to bring their quarrels (and something far more destructive) with them. And in the title story, Suzuki offers readers a tragic and warped mirroring of her own final days as the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanistion of labour bring about a shattering psychic collapse. At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345260642
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book A Scanner Darkly written by Philip K. Dick and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1977 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
Author : Hardin B. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521212472
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Sensual Drugs written by Hardin B. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-01-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction, sensual drug abuse; The brain, the senses, and pleasure; Action of sensual drugs; Hazards of sensual drugs; Addiction and dependency; Sexual deprivation; Drug abuse among American soldiers in Southeast Asia; Rehabilitation; Mind expansion; Marijuana; Effect of drugs on mental state; Fate of Marijuana in the body; Some information about opiates; Drug use among patients in treatment clinics; Some observable signs and symptoms of drug use; Rehabilitation of sexual functioning as an incentive to stop drug use; US Senate hearings on world drug traffic; US Senate hearings on marijuana and hashish; THC: two animal studies; Cannabis seizures; Mortality rate and drug abuse.
Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575117265
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Child of Fortune written by Norman Spinrad and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds.
Author : Hal Clement
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575110171
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Iceworld written by Hal Clement and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, surviving on the barren planet. But Sallman and his team were not the first to make contact. Smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives for a new and virulent narcotic - the most dangerous drug in the universe. Now Sallman would have to find out how he could survive on a planet so cold that sulphur was solid and water was liquid - and how to stop the source of the deadly drug!
Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765342515
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Santaroga Barrier written by Frank Herbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santaroga seems to be nothing more than a prosperous farming community, but there is something different about it. It has no crime at all. Outsiders find no houses for sale or rent in the valley, and no one ever moves out. Maybe Santaroga is the last outpost of American individualism. Or maybe there is something extraordinary at work there--something far more disturbing than anyone imagines.
Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316252999
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The House on the Strand written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic time travel novel from the legendary writer behind Rebecca and "The Birds." "The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier." --New York Times Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...
Author : Thomas Hager
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355318
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Ten Drugs written by Thomas Hager and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The stories are skillfully told and entirely entertaining . . . An expert, mostly feel-good book about modern medicine” from the award-winning author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this remarkable, century-spanning history, and you can trace the evolution of our culture and the practice of medicine. Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book. “[An] absorbing new book.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A] well-written and engaging chronicle.” —The Wall Street Journal “Lucidly informative and compulsively readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Entertaining [and] insightful.” —Booklist “Well-written, well-researched and fascinating to read Ten Drugs provides an insightful look at how drugs have shaped modern medical practices. Towards the end of the book Hager writes that he ‘came away surprised by some of the things he had learned.’ I had the very same reaction.” —Penny Le Couteur, coauthor of Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471118304
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Lord of Opium written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica, grown from a strip of old El Patron's skin. Now, age fourteen, Matt suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country, Opium, on the one-time border between the US and Mexico, stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives, the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster… and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isn't all that's hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patron's sinister system of drug growing... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering, but he can't even find a way to smuggle his childhood love Maria across the border and into Opium. Instead, his every move hits a roadblock - both from the traitors that surround him and from a voice within himself. For who is Matt really but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator?
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Research Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443428582
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Island written by Aldous Huxley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Although he at first disregards the possibility of an ideal society, as Farnaby spends time with the people of Pala his ideas about humanity change. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author : Gregory A. Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Research Issues Update, 1978 written by Gregory A. Austin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
