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| Author: | Hamilton, Edmond |
| Title: | The truth gas |
| Journal: | Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, No. 5, 1060-1071 |
| Publisher: | Continental Publications, New York |
| Date: | February 1935 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:A scientist who believes that all sin and crime stem from deceptiveness perfects and releases into the atmosphere a drug that "causes a short-circuit between the brain's thought-centers and its motor-centers of speech" so that lying becomes impossible. The resulting compulsive honesty leads to impossible social situations as the whole veneer of tact and diplomacy vanishes; it becomes necessary to devise and release an antidote. | |
| Author: | Bartel, Philip J. |
| Title: | The elixir of progress |
| Journal: | Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, No. 11, 1286-1304 |
| Publisher: | Continental Publications, New York |
| Date: | April 1935 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as euphorics |
| Annotation:Satiric story of the quest in the year 3903 for rediscovery of the lost ancient drug that provided stimulation and energy and delight to early man—coffee. | |
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