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"One could imagine a very ascetic sort of life ... where the body is ignored. This is something I've played with in my books, where people hate to be reminded sometimes that they have bodies, they find it very slow and tedious."
- William Gibson
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| Jetta Tube | ||
| Spray causes immediately a trance-like state where a person’s body becomes rigid. |
| THE steel door clicked open. A man stood in the entrance, flanked by two guards armed with jetta tubes. These were the weapons worn by the dictator’s police; the fine spray that could be shot from them produced instant catalepsy, terminating in death, unless a secret antidote was given. |
| Technovelgy from Revolt on Inferno,
by Victor Rousseau. Published by Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Handy stuff, easily concealed:
Compare to the cellphone tranquilizing spray from The Age of The Pussyfoot (1966) by Frederik Pohl.
He fingered the miniature jetta-tube through the cloth of his pocket-flap. The atomized spray acted instantaneously, but only upon contact with human flesh; inhaled, it was harmless; one molecule upon Donald’s face would throw him into immediate catalepsy. Armed with a single tube, Danvril was invincible against the whole shipload of conspirators.
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