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"The thing that I'm most interested in at the moment is the so-called Infinite Energy solution - the possibility of finding new ways of tapping into virtually limitless sources of energy."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Sloth Pill  
  A medication to induce a kind of somnolence like short-term hibernation; used in air travel.  

Shep isn't one for flying... he washes down a half-day sloth pill with a complimentary vial of vodka and hopes he'll see less than an hour of the flight to Los Angeles...

The sloth pill, ordered from the recesses of the Internet, is meant to treat insomnia, but it should make short work of long-haul. Along with reducing the appetite and slowing the digestive tract, the pill contains a thinning agent, so you don't have to worry about clots. The comedown - general aches and fogginess, sometimes the visual distortions a person with epilepsy might describe before a seizure - is worth the sensation of burning through time.

Technovelgy from The Breach, by M.T. Hill.
Published by Titan Books in 2020
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