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| Author: | Keller, David H. |
| Title: | The abyss |
| In: | The Solitary Hunters and the Abyss |
| Publisher: | New Era Publishers, Philadelphia |
| Pages: | 108-265 |
| Date: | 1948 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:A scientist isolates XYZ, a chemical present in the minds of psychotics, and, purely as an experiment, doses all of New York City with it by distributing it in the form of chewing gum. Mass psychosis results; civilization collapses and the eight million guinea pigs revert to a sort of Roman culture, with barbaric gladiatorial games, an emperor, mass brutality, new religions. After thirty days the drug wears off and the victims fall into coma and awaken unharmed. | |
| Author: | MacDonald, John D. |
| Title: | Trojan horse laugh |
| Journal: | Astounding Science Fiction, Vol. 43 , No. 6, 73-111 |
| Publisher: | Street & Smith Publications, New York |
| Date: | August 1949 |
| Format: | Short novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind controllers |
| Annotation:An endocrinologist has charted a monthly human cycle of emotional peaks and depressions, and, for the sake of greater efficiency and harmony in society, has developed a drug that will control and adjust the cycle so that everyone treated will peak or drop at the same time. This works well during the high part of the cycle, but once the lows set in, mass hysteria develops among the inoculated populace, there is a wave of suicides, and a chain reaction of interlocking depressions virtually destroys society. | |
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