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- Neal Stephenson
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| Dispensing Tooth | ||
| A device shaped like a tooth that dispenses gas. |
Everyone trusted Dr. Yueh; his Suk school training forbid the taking of human life. But when he betrayed the Atreides, he offered Duke Leto an opportunity to avenge himself on the Baron Harkonnen.
| "Be quiet, please, my poor Duke. You haven't much time.
That peg tooth I put in your mouth after the tumble at Narcal--that tooth must be replaced, in a moment, I'll render you unconscious and replace that tooth." He opened his hand, stared at something in it. "An exact duplicate, its core shaped most exquisitely like a nerve. It'll escape the usual detectors, even a fast scanning. But if you bite down hard on it, the cover crushes. Then, when you expel your breath sharply, you fill the air around you with a poison gas..." Cool remoteness spread upward from Leto's jaw, across his cheeks. The shadowy, hall narrowed to a pinpoint with Yueh's purple lips centered in it. "Remember the tooth!" Yueh hissed. "The tooth!" |
| From Dune,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1965 Additional resources -
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This seems like an old idea to me; does anyone know an earlier reference to this idea?
Thanks to Zac Hunter for reminding me of this one.
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