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![]() This is the reference that most (older!) science fiction fans will remember, but see below for an earlier reference.
An earlier use of "neuronic" is the neuronic control apparatus from Masson's Secret, by Raymond Z. Gallun, published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1939.
In The Green Girl, a 1930 story by Jack Williamson, we find a very early, maybe the earliest, use of the term "neuronic" in science fiction:
And now that I think about it, the first use of neuronic whip is still by Asimov, but a decade earlier, in The Hazing (1942):
Williams grinned savagely. “Try and make me.”
There was no answer, but the flash beam shifted slightly and fell upon the shadow’s other hand. It held a “neuronic whip,” that pleasant little weapon that paralyzes the vocal cords and twists nerves into so many knots of agony. Williams swallowed hard, and got out of bed.
Readers might also be reminded of the pain box from Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune; it also caused pain by nerve induction.
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