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* [[Robert Heinlein]]:

** Short story "Coventry". The hero and a companion take a powerful stimulant called a "pepper pill" ("improbable offspring of common coal tar") in order to complete a long hike and deliver a vital message. The drug can cause heart attacks and burns the body's tissues to provide energy after normal reserves are gone, requiring days to recover from its use.

** ''Have Space Suit - Will Travel''. While trudging across the surface of the Moon in a life and death situation, Kip takes dexedrine tablets when he gets exhausted.

** ''[[Have Space Suit - Will Travel]]''. While trudging across the surface of the Moon in a life and death situation, Kip takes dexedrine tablets when he gets exhausted.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''His Last Command'', when Mkoll is unconscious after falling through a [[Cool Gate|Chaos warp gate]] and managing to get himself and another scout back despite the enemies, the [[Alien Geometries|impossible landscape]], and the [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|cold behind it]], Gaunt ''has'' to speak with him. He has [[The Medic|Dorden]] revive him long enough to speak with a shot; Dorden refuses to give him another dose, after.

* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' books there are several stimulants that can be used to push beyond normal limits on endurance.

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* In ''[[Agatha H and The Clockwork Princess]]'', Lucrezia, back in a body that needs sleep, resorts to drugs to keep going. Lots and lots of drugs.

* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|In the Lion's Mouth]]'', a [[Good Samaritan]] gives Dominic Tight "booster" after the ambush injured him.

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