“Every age is known by its pleasures, Fielding reads from the library readout. The twentieth introduced two: high speed and hallucinogenic drugs. Both proved dangerous in the long run, which made them even more interesting.”

— Gregory Benford

Doing Lennon, p. 268
In Alien Flesh (1986)

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