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Author: | Williams, Robert Moore |
Title: | The elixir of peace |
Journal: | Amazing Stories, Vol. 23, No. 12, 124-131 |
Publisher: | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Chicago |
Date: | December 1949 |
Format: | Short story |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
Annotation:Comic story of a tranquilizing drug devised to make animals such as lions tame enough to use in movies. The demonstration leads to complications, and a furious movie director is "tamed" as well by surreptitious use of the drug. |
Author: | Heinlein, Robert A. |
Title: | The Puppet Masters |
Publisher: | Doubleday & Co., New York |
Pages: | 219 pp. |
Date: | 1951 |
Format: | Novel |
Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
Annotation:The Earth has been invaded by slug-like parasitic beings that attach themselves to men's backs and dominate their minds and bodies. The protagonists, Sam Nivin and Mary, are members of a secret security agency fighting the invaders. In the middle of the struggle they decide to get married; but because they can only spare 24 hours for their honeymoon, they inject themselves with tempus, a drug analogous to speed, which stretches subjective time for them so that they feel they are experiencing a month-long honeymoon. |
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