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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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