Project Gutenberg 2009-12-21 Public domain in the USA. 61 Spinrad, Norman 1940 Spinrad, Norman Richard Summers, Leo 1925 1985 Summers, L.R. Summers, L. R. Summers, Leo Ramon Subjectivity Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Subjectivity" by Norman Spinrad is a science fiction novella written in the early 1960s. The story explores the psychological consequences of a long-duration spaceflight and the desperate measures taken by a unified Solar Government to ensure humanity's venture to the stars. The narrative revolves around a group of ten uniquely flawed individuals who are tasked with crew duties aboard a spaceship designed for interstellar travel, specifically experimenting with a powerful hallucinogenic drug to cope with the psychological strains of the journey. As the crew of starship Number Thirteen embarks on their sixteen-year mission to Centaurus, they ingest the hallucinogenic substance called Omnidrene, which becomes a crutch that fuels both their creativity and descent into madness. The crew's shared hallucinations begin to evolve, leading to a breakdown of control as their imagined creatures manifest in increasingly alarming forms. While they initially enjoy a beautiful garden within the spaceship's confines, the line between reality and fantasy blurs as their creations spiral out of control, culminating in a chaotic confrontation with their own minds. Ultimately, the crew miraculously returns to Earth not in traditional form but accompanied by the monstrous manifestations of their collective consciousness, leaving behind a profound commentary on the nature of reality and human psyche in the face of isolation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 52896 52891 2024-10-13T07:06:21.606794 2023-09-13T11:28:50.493029 text/html text/html 49565 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 165329 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 252587 2024-10-13T07:06:27.157768 application/epub+zip 251435 2024-10-13T07:06:24.666791 application/epub+zip 78039 2024-10-13T07:06:23.428793 application/epub+zip 338368 2024-10-13T07:06:28.979775 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 331076 2024-10-13T07:06:26.428782 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140473 2022-09-14T07:57:14.811865 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 45462 45359 2024-10-13T07:06:21.268782 2023-09-13T11:28:50.263036 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 45370 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17332 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20285 2024-10-13T07:06:29.108746 application/rdf+xml 12857 2024-10-13T07:06:23.963762 image/jpeg 3342 2024-10-13T07:06:23.691774 image/jpeg 243027 2024-10-13T07:06:21.622811 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog