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| Author: | Huxley, Aldous |
| Title: | Brave New World |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus, London, England |
| Pages: | 214 pp. |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Format: | Novel |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as panaceas |
| Annotation:In mechanized, standardized utopian world of the future, where human beings are synthetically produced in incubators and conditioned for optimum social stability, a drug called soma serves as the utopiate of the masses, distracting and tranquilizing those who might otherwise become restless in their too-comfortable lives. | |
| Author: | Keller, David H. |
| Title: | The literary corkscrew |
| In: | Wonder Stories, Vol. 5. No. 8, 867-873 |
| Publisher: | Continental Publications, New York |
| Date: | March 1934 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as intelligence enhancers |
| Annotation:Satiric story. A professional writer discovers he can write only when in physical pain, and requires his wife to drive a corkscrew into his back to get him started. But the pain of the corkscrew is impossible to sustain for long, and they seek medical help. The doctor they consult discovers that it isn't the pain itself but rather certain hormones secreted as a response to the pain that encourages literary production, and synthesizes a drug that makes writing easier. Doctor takes his own drug and writes a best-seller. | |
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