{"_id":"63573619dbe19b97c9a0dccc","title":"The Plutonian Drug","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-plutonian-drug","words":4017,"publish_year":1934,"publish_source":"Amazing Stories","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Volume_9_Number_5_/page/n41/mode/2up","publish_edition":"Vol. 9, No. 5","rating":4,"image":"elixir.jpg","image_alt":"A small vial with mist inside. Graphite filter","genres":["sci-fi","mystery","gothic"],"blurb":"Without surprise, he found that he was gazing simultaneously in two directions. On either hand, for a vast distance that was wholly void of normal perspective, a weird and peculiar landscape stretched away, traversed by an unbroken frieze or bas-relief of human figures that ran like a straight undeviating wall.","description":"Balcoth agrees to take the unstudied drug ‘Plutonian’ that Dr Manners claims will allow him to see time just as he sees the three dimensions of space now.","unique_cover":"Sketch of six whiskey glasses floating in a circle pouring liquid into eachother.","cover_source":"Evan C. Lewis","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"too-far","title":"Science Gone Too Far","collection_type":"theme"},{"code":"sci-fi","title":"Best of Sci-fi","collection_type":"genre"}]}