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    Subjectivity
    Subjectivity
    Subjectivity
    Ebook44 pages25 minutes

    Subjectivity

    By Leo Summers and Norman Spinrad

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      After twelve failed attempts at sending humans into space, the solar government provides hallucinogenic drugs to the crew of mission thirteen to help them overcome the tedium and isolation of such a long voyage. After passing Pluto, the crew takes the drug on a regular basis, conjuring all manner of creatures and environments in their minds. They soon learns that by focusing together, they can produce shared hallucinations... with an unexpected result.

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    Subjectivity - Leo Summers

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Subjectivity, by Norman Spinrad

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    Title: Subjectivity

    Author: Norman Spinrad

    Illustrator: Leo Summers

    Release Date: December 21, 2009 [EBook #30722]

    Language: English

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    subjectivity

    Boredom on a long, interstellar trip can be quite a problem ... but the entertainment technique the government dreamed up for this one was a leeetle too good...!

    NORMAN SPINRAD

    Illustrated by Leo Summers

    nterplanetary flight having been perfected, the planets and moons of the Sol system having been colonized, Man turned his attention to the stars.

    And ran into a stone wall.

    After three decades of trying, scientists reluctantly concluded that a faster-than-light drive was an impossibility, at least within the realm of any known theory of the Universe. They gave up.

    But a government does not give up so easily, especially a unified government which already controls the entire habitat of the human race. Most especially a psychologically and sociologically enlightened government which sees the handwriting on the wall, and has already noticed the first signs of racial claustrophobia—an objectless sense of frustrated rage, increases in senseless crimes, proliferation of perversions and vices of every kind. Like grape juice sealed in a bottle, the human race had begun to ferment.

    Therefore, the Solar Government took a slightly different point of view towards interstellar travel—Man must go to the stars. Period. Therefore, Man will go to the stars.

    If the speed of light could not be exceeded, then Man would go to

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