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The Butterfly Kid
Chester Anderson’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1967 by Pyramid Books · 190 pages
Hugo · 1968
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Synopsis
In New York's Greenwich Village, a new drug called Reality Pills appears on the streets, causing users' hallucinations to become physically real. Chester Anderson, a fictionalized version of the author, and his poet friends must track down the source of the drug, which turns out to be an alien plot to soften up Earth for invasion.
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Details
- Series
- Greenwich Village Trilogy · Book 1
- Author nationality
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780839823742