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| Mnemotropin | ||
| A drug to improve the creation of long-term memories. |
Stone's job is to study - to learn and assimilate as much as he can from an amazing terminal screen that is linked to thousands of others, all over the world.
One day, he gets some help.
| One day Stone notices a pill on his lunch tray. He asks June its nature.
"It's a mnemotropin - promotes the coding of long-term memories," she replies. "I thought it might help you." Each day he finds a pill at lunch. His brain seems to expand to a larger volume soon after he takes them. The effect is potent, allowing him to imagine that he can ingest the world. |
| Technovelgy from Stone Lives,
by Paul Di Filippo. Published by Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1985 Additional resources -
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