Project Gutenberg 2009-12-21 Public domain in the USA. 122 Spinrad, Norman 1940 Spinrad, Norman Richard Summers, Leo 1925 1985 Summers, L.R. Summers, L. R. Summers, Leo Ramon Subjectivity Produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction January 1964. 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.) Reading ease score: 77.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Psychiatry/Psychology 53033 2025-08-12T13:20:48.555724 text/html 49565 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/html 252662 2025-08-12T13:20:53.479670 application/epub+zip 251429 2025-08-12T13:20:51.225711 application/epub+zip 78031 2025-08-12T13:20:50.145699 application/epub+zip 338378 2025-08-12T13:20:55.186718 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 331076 2025-08-12T13:20:52.836726 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140473 2022-09-14T07:57:14.811865 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 45462 2025-08-12T13:20:48.273734 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 45370 2009-12-21T08:36:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19267 2025-08-12T13:20:55.345672 application/rdf+xml 12857 2025-08-12T13:20:50.641704 image/jpeg 3342 2025-08-12T13:20:50.388675 image/jpeg 165329 2009-12-21T08:36:06 application/octet-stream application/zip 17332 2009-12-21T08:36:06 application/octet-stream application/zip 243068 2025-08-12T13:20:48.570720 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia