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"[Science fiction is] an integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious."
- Gregory Benford
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| Hubrizine | ||
| A drug that brings about greater alertness and cheerfulness. |
| "Hubrizine stimulates the anterior portion of the spetal region of the brain. Stimulation in that area, Mr. Rosen, will bring about greater alertness, plus cheerfulness and a belief that events will work out all right on their own. It compares to this setting on the Hammerstein Mood Organ." He passed me a small glossy folded printed piece of paper; I saw Hammerstein stop-setting indications on it. "But the effect of the drug is much more intense; as you know, the amplitude of affect-shock produced by the Mood Organ is severely limited by law." |
| Technovelgy from We Can Build You,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Amazing Stories in 1972 Additional resources -
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See also Allswell, a playfully-named compound from Neal Stephenson's 2008 novel Anathem.
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