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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Five SF Works About Mind-Altering Drugs
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:27:31 -0500
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On 17/05/2024 09.57, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> On 5/17/2024 5:57 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On 09/05/2024 22:00, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>>> On 07/05/2024 23.39, John Savard wrote:
>>>> On 6 May 2024 14:19:23 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Five SF Works About Mind-Altering Drugs
>>>>>
>>>>> From Huxley's Brave New World to Akira's Neo-Tokyo, science fiction has dreamed up some very strange and powerful drugs...
>>>>>
>>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-works-about-mind-altering-drugs/
>>>>
>>>> In the case of Brave New World... you didn't mention that each use of
>>>> Soma shortens one's life by a year.
>>>
>>> Can you provide a quote from the text to that effect?
>>
>> I don't think that's right in _Brave New World_.
>> Soma is very popular.  There is a scene where
>> it seems to be used for euthanasia for the
>> unproductive.  Other stories may have a drug
>> with that effect and possibly with that name.
> 
> Looking at the references in the partial copy at
> archive.org confirms my memories that soma is
> used casually for 'holidays' from reality.

That matches my recollection. Thanks.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Exodus 22:21