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A delicious erotic dream explodes into an uncontrollable nightmare of perversion. violence, and insanity. An accident at a secret germ-warfare laboratory allows a deadly vapour to infect all of Southern England. The vapour is an aphrodisiac that releases every pent-up human urge. Within 24 hours society self-destructs in a vast orgy of lust, aggression, and psychosis, as men and women everywhere act out their deepest, weirdest obsessions. As a breathless ride into depravity, THE GAS is unique. As a witty, ironic expose of the repressions and hypocrisies that make us "civilized", THE GAS is a salutory comment on our society. For almost a decade this amazing journey into sexual compulsion has been an underground classic, considered too explicit for the British market. Commissioned originally for the notorious Essex House series of erotic science fiction, THE GAS was published in America in 1970, and became an instant collectors item. Now, for the first time, Savoy Books makes this unique novel available to the British public, with a new introduction by Philip Jose Farmer.