Sex Drugs & Science Fiction
Explore the provocative intersection of sex, drugs, and science fiction with our curated list. From Philip K. Dick’s mind-bending *A Scanner Darkly* to Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk noir *Altered Carbon* and William S. Burroughs’ *Naked Lunch*, this collection features thrilling speculative fiction, edgy fantasy, and boundary-pushing sci-fi classics from legendary authors like Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison. Dive into dystopian tales, altered realities, and alien encounters in this essential reading list for fans of counterculture literature and hard-hitting, visionary storytelling.
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A Scanner Darkly
by Philip K. Dick
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. Undercover narcotics agent Bob Arctor is desperate to discover the ultimate source of supply, but to find any kind of lead he has to pose as a user. Without realising what is happening, he is soon as addicted as the junkies he works among.
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.
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Strange Relations
by Philip José Farmer
Three works by a grand master of science fiction are brought together in this original volume. Previously published as separate books, "Flesh, Strange Relations," and "The Lovers," one of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in sci fi, are collected. Original.
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A Feast Unknown
by Philip José Farmer
Two legendary champions are dedicated to fighting evil on different continents. Yet some strange force is affecting them and they fight their way through the savage jungles of Ethiopia toward a bloody meeting. The Lord of the Jungle immerses himself in an orgy of blood and lust. The Man of Bronze thirsts for a devastating revenge. Their final meeting is a climax of sex, violence, and perversion that will never be forgotten. For the loser- a hideous death. for the winner - a beautiful, voluptuous woman and the promise of immortality.
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
by Robert Shea
Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.
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Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
by Robert A. Wilson
The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world--a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that may be closer than we think.
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Wetware
by Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Stahn, a searcher is hired by Mr. Yukawa, a molecular biologist, to find Della Taze, his missing assistant, and discovers that the Boppers, moon-based robots have a plan to make their own humans
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Axiomatic
by Greg Egan
A dazzling collection of short fiction, filled with invention and hard-science speculation, by the popular author of QUARANTINE, PERMUTATION CITY, and DISTRESS. Growing in reputation and sales with every book, Greg Egan, has filled this volume with the best of his short fiction work, that his growing audience is sure to appreciate.
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Vurt
by Jeff Noon
A cyberpunk novel with a difference, a rollicking, dark, yet humorous examination of a future in which the boundaries between reality and virtual reality are as tenuous as the brush of a feather.
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Cybersex
by Richard Glyn Jones
A collection of twenty-five short stories featuring erotic adventures with computers, robots, and aliens
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Alien Sex
by Ellen Datlow
Nineteen erotic tales of love and aliens feature the writings of such popular authors as Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, and Lewis Shiner. Reprint.
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Godbody
by Theodore Sturgeon
Here is a masterpiece of fiction--a haunting, meaningful and at times erotic novel that describes a wondrous transformation that takes place in an American town when a charismatic, Christ-like figure mysteriously appears in its midst.
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Dangerous Visions
by Harlan Ellison
The legendary collection that changed the literature of science fiction for all time! Unavailable for over fifteen years! New introduction and annotations by Harlan Ellison. Foreword by his friend and mentor, the late Isaac Asimov. This massive anthology contains 34 short stories, including Nebula Award-winning stories by Samuel R. Delany and Fritz Leiber, and Hugo Award-winning stories by Fritz Leiber and Philip Jose Farmer. Includes stories by some of the best science-fiction writers who ever lived, writing at the height of their storytelling powers. All stories were commissioned originally by Ellison.
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Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person's consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying repercussions. Reprint.
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs—is a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite.
