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It is the first book in the [[The Greenwich Village Trilogy|"Greenwich Village Trilogy"]], followed by ''[[The Unicorn Girl]]'' (1969) by [[Michael Kurland]] and ''[[The Probability Pad]]'' (1970) by T A Waters.
It starts in New York City, in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|the future year of 1976,]] when Chester Anderson, narrator and harpsichordist for the band Sativa and the Tripouts, spots a teenaged boy sitting in Washington Square Park creating psychedelically-designed butterflies out of thin air -- real, living butterflies in the most improbable patterns possible. Chester carefully befriends the boy (who is named Sean) and brings him back home to find out just ''how'' he's manifesting butterflies.
It turns out someone is distributing a new drug -- something called "Reality Pills". And as Chester and his friend Michael discover when they sample the drug themselves, it's not only a hallucinogenic, the hallucinations it causes are solid and real and can affect the world around them. The sole source of this new drug is Laszlo Scott, the pariah of Greenwich Village. Scott is a talentless would-be poet and a conniver who delights in abusing everyone while at the same time hating almost everyone he meets. The Reality Pill clearly gives him a new status to lord over the other denizens of the Village -- but where is he getting it from?
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