LSD and Police Fiction

[wood jim]

Crossen also wrote science fiction novels, pulp hero
tales, and comic books. His
1940's pulp and comic book hero the Green Lama might
appeal to today's readers
and their fascination with Tibet. Crossen's Year of
Consent (1954) is a dystopian
science fiction novel, in the tradition of Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World (1932).
Crossen depicts a future United States under the
control of public relations and
advertising experts, people who know how to manipulate
public opinion. There is
considerable satiric thrust to this, and it has only
gotten worse in recent elections,
with sound bites and negative campaigning. Crossen
also follows Huxley's ideas in
being concerned about psychoactive drugs, and their
ability to manipulate
populations. Crossen's The Splintered Man is probably
the first work of fiction of
any sort to discuss LSD. Crossen depicts LSD as a
sinister drug, used by Soviet
totalitarian scientists for purposes of mind control.
Crossen also wrote anti-drug
novels aimed at young readers. Year of Consent is also
notable for its depiction of
computers as an instrument of social control.
Crossen's technical specifications for
the government computer (known as "Hugo") are
remarkably detailed, precise and
scientifically accurate. Crossen clearly had done a
lot of serious research into
science before writing his tales, which are unusually
grounded in real science. 


Ha Ha ! 

The Shadow (see "The Secret Integration") 

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