num_pages: 206
description: Edward Jessup, a neurophysiologist at the Harvard Medical School, relentlessly seeks the origins of human consciousness and, with the aide of an isolation tank and a hallucinogenic drug, regresses farther and farther into a proto-human state
language: English
title: Altered States
titlecomplete: Altered States
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Psychology, Science Fiction, Media Tie In, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 829
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Bantam Books