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| Author: | Fearn, John Russell |
| Title: | He never slept |
| Journal: | Astounding Stories, Vol. 13, No. 4, 56-67 |
| Publisher: | Street & Smith, New York |
| Date: | June 1934 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as intelligence-enhancers |
| Annotation:Scientist concocts a protein-based drug that frees the subject from all need to sleep. Narrator takes the drug and enters into a condition of enhanced perceptivity in which he is capable of penetrating the visionary recesses of his own mind and visiting the dream-creating processes. The experience eventually exhausts him, but unable to give up use of the drug, he looks forward to death as the only release from its effects. | |
| Author: | Herbert, Benson |
| Title: | The control drug |
| Journal: | Wonder Stories, Vol. 6, No. 6, 669-675 |
| Publisher: | Continental Publications, New York |
| Date: | November 1934 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as euphorics |
| Annotation:Scientist invents a xenon-derived drug that seems to offer a "paradise" effect—brief glimpses of the Divine, freedom from the material body, etc. But further research shows its dread long-term effects: "The stuff doesn't exalt you or energize you. . . What it does is to release the emotions from a lifetime of civilized control and suppression. It takes the bonds off secret desires. Its subtle physiological action leaves you with no control whatever." Naturally he destroys the drug and takes his own life. | |
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