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"All fiction is propaganda, and the fiction we like is the propaganda we believe in, and the fiction we don't like is the propaganda we don't believe in."
- Samuel R. Delany
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| Jetta Tube | ||
| Spray causes immediately a trance-like state where a person’s body becomes rigid. |
| THE steel door clicked open. A man stood in the entrance, flanked by two guards armed with jetta tubes. These were the weapons worn by the dictator’s police; the fine spray that could be shot from them produced instant catalepsy, terminating in death, unless a secret antidote was given. |
| Technovelgy from Revolt on Inferno,
by Victor Rousseau. Published by Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Handy stuff, easily concealed:
Compare to the cellphone tranquilizing spray from The Age of The Pussyfoot (1966) by Frederik Pohl.
He fingered the miniature jetta-tube through the cloth of his pocket-flap. The atomized spray acted instantaneously, but only upon contact with human flesh; inhaled, it was harmless; one molecule upon Donald’s face would throw him into immediate catalepsy. Armed with a single tube, Danvril was invincible against the whole shipload of conspirators.
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