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| Author: | Smith, Clark Ashton |
| Title: | The Plutonian drug |
| Journal: | Amazing Stories, Vol. 9, No. 5, 41-48 |
| Publisher: | Teck Publications, New York |
| Date: | September 1934 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Among the many drugs brought back to Earth by space explorers is Plutonium, a powder from Pluto that produces a hashish-like derangement of time-perception, permitting the user to transform time into space and go on psychedelic voyages. The subject penetrates five or six hours into the past, an ineffable experience that ends with a vision of his own death soon fulfilled in reality. | |
| Author: | Barnes, Arthur K. |
| Title: | Emotion solution |
| Journal: | Wonder Stories, Vol. 7, No. 8, 955-963 |
| Publisher: | Continental Publications, New York |
| Date: | April 1936 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:A scientist who feels that emotions are a hindrance to the full development of intelligence perfects a solution that destroys the "emotional centers" of the brain; he infiltrates it into the Southern California water system. The resulting emotionless society is lifeless and without energy, not at all what the scientist envisioned, and he feels guilt for having transformed millions of people into dull robots. | |
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