I’ve just finished Baudolino it’s one of his best IMHO. The Green honey does sound pretty good but I think I’d prefer some of Huxley’s soma.
GTA 3’s SPANK.
Whatever drug the entire civilization was addicted to in the Star Trek episode “Symbiosis”.
Miller: I think it may have been called simply “the wire”.
Not exactly a drug though.
Was spice illicit?
Brian
Melange, from Dune.
Romulan Ale - Star Trek
Argh, what’s the drug they use in Logan’s Run???
Nothing beat the buzz of homemade Glint (aka Glimmer, Glow, Satan’s Harelip).
I second that, and it really is a darn good book.
“He also saw things and did things over which it is best to draw a kindly veil, for every desire – mental or physical, open or sternly suppressed, noble or base – that Virgil Samms had ever had was being completely satisfied. EVERY DESIRE.”
– First Lensman, chapter 8
The cubs in Cathedral put a breather mask over Logan’s face to try and force him to inhale “muscle” – which, while not described in the movie, is described in the book as making its imbiber move super-fast (if it doesn’t give him a heart attack). And also in the book, some gang or other gave Logan a dose of “everlove”, which forced him keep having sex over and over even after it had become very painful.
Of course, drugs weren’t illegal in the Logan’s Run universe. Only Running was.
Nitpicks: First, Wu didn’t have a wire in his brain. Second, a tasp is wireless, but operates on the same principle. Third, Nessus used the tasp on Speaker to Animals (who was humiliated at the prospect of an un-warrior-ly addiction), not on Wu.
The “wire to the pleasure centre” gadget is called a droud; the tasp is the wireless version.
I can’t remember the name of it but it is the other drug that features in the Red Dwarf book ‘Better than Life’. It is described as looking like soil and makes the user believe he is god for 15 mins but the resulting comedown lasts 25 years. It is also so addictive that you can get hooked just by looking at it. Anyone help me out with the name?
I’m with the Perdido vote! Great book! But I think dreams*** it “great” only because is it a great fictional invention. I would NOT go anywhere near it if I lived in that world.
Drooz (think I spelled that right) from Omalas (again, not too sure of the spelling.) A nice buzzy creative feeling and not a bit addictive.
Stroon from Norstrilia and elsewhere in the works of Cordwainer Smith. Gives you immortality – but don’t try to steal it or you’ll run into Mother Hutton’s Littul Kittons.
Smith also had an interesting psychoactive drug in “A Planet Called Shayol,” but I don’t recall the name of it – just “caps,” which were inferior and similar to a tasp.
Alice’s magic mushroom.
But overall, I’d take Roger Ramjet’s Proton Power Pills, which give you the power of 20 atom bombs for 20 seconds.
There were three “mixes” – Synthemesc, Vellocet and Drencrom. I do not recall which one (or whether it was a combination) was then in turn slang-named “Knives”, which was Alex’ fave for getting ready to step out with the droogs in the height of fashion for a bit of the ol’ ultraviolent.
Valkyr from Max Payne.
“Valkyr had been meant to be a white-winged maiden that
would lift you to a warrior’s heaven. But it had turned
out to be a one-way demon ride to Hell. The Devil was in
the drug. I knew, I had met him… And now I was going
to kill her…”
Louis Wu (Ringworld, for those not in the know) was simply “Under the Wire” and considered a “current addict”. As mentioned before, the Tasp was used by the Puppeteer on Speaker-to-Animals, a Kzin.
Vurt was my suggestion, but it’s already been said.
How about Neuroin from Minority Report (the movie, I haven’t read the story)?
Does anyone remember the name of the drug in Lawrence Sanders’ “The Tomorrow File?” I only remember that when I read it I wished it existed.
Man, I can’t believe I’m the first to mention Rudy Rucker’s works! (Software, Wetware, etc.) Lotsa weird stuff there. He writes of a drug called merge: two people take it, get into a bathtub, and have an ecstatic experience while the drug loosens their inter-cellular bonds and their bodies puddle together…