Re: Five SF Works About Mind-Altering Drugs

On 09/05/2024 22:00, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 07/05/2024 23.39, John Savard wrote:

On 6 May 2024 14:19:23 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
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Five SF Works About Mind-Altering Drugs
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From Huxley's Brave New World to Akira's Neo-Tokyo, science fiction has dreamed up some very strange and powerful drugs...
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https://reactormag.com/five-sf-works-about-mind-altering-drugs/

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In the case of Brave New World... you didn't mention that each use of
Soma shortens one's life by a year.

 Can you provide a quote from the text to that effect?

I don't think that's right in _Brave New World_.
Soma is very popular.  There is a scene where
it seems to be used for euthanasia for the
unproductive.  Other stories may have a drug
with that effect and possibly with that name.
The truth drug in the extended "Family D'Alembert"
series - by Stephen Goldin writing as E.E. Smith -
kills fifty percent of subjects, often before
interrogation begins.  I say "often" - I think
I remember it's more often threatened than used.
It works really well though...  mostly...