Five Hippie-ish SF Novels Inspired by Sixties Counterculture
From time to time, humanity’s powers of kidding itself have produced short-lived crops of deluded optimists. Half a century ago, for example, young people not yet reconciled to grim reality pushed back at society’s constraints… Free love! Communes! Bold hairstyle choices suitable for those who have not yet experienced male pattern baldness! Unsurprisingly, hippiedom and the counterculture leaked into science fiction, with various degrees of optimism. Here are five examples. This book is set in an imagined futuristic New York, which oddly enough has remained stuck in an eternal 1960s....
Source: tor.com