Re: FW: 10 Ultra-Weird Science Fiction Novels that Became Required Reading
Helge Moulding <[email protected]>
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In the 60s and early 70s it seems there were a lot of stories that traded on the notion of non-trad meds and stuff. "Lone scientist discovers cure for cancer but has to work in secret lest the running dogs of Big Pharme come along and punish him," sort of thing. Some of it was truly as weird as anything in this list, like a story of old crones using the beat of rock and roll to turn themselves young and seduce the hero and his friends. It wasn't quite clear to me in that story why the old women were the bad guys, when it was the young man who was being a dick for a roll in the hay... (Sorry, no memory of title or author - you can tell what stuff I remember.) -- Helge