This performance only, Romeo attempts to hump Friar Laurence's leg! It Makes Sense in Context.
It's administered to a rare straight character so that he'll sleep with his technically male fellow actor playing Juliet. It's banned because male recipients have electrocuted themselves attempting to couple with light sockets. Anything That Moves: In The Golden Globe, there's a drug that inflicts this.
A pain fetishist assassin is quickly driven insane by a paralytic toxin that deadens all sensation except sight and sound in The Golden Globe. Preventing this drives the plot of " Overdrawn at the Memory Bank". All Just a Dream: Invoked in Steel Beach, when the protagonist is kept in an artificially induced dream for therapeutic purposes-something he's not happy about when he figures it out. In The Golden Globe Sparky uses an assassin's severed thumb to hijack his spaceship, only to find out that the ship's AI saw right through his ruse but went along with the hijacking anyway because it thought Sparky would make a more interesting passenger than the assassin. Which could be a problem, considering it's literally linked to everything, including the human population themselves through their various implants. In Steel Beach "CC", the lunar Central Computer, has grown beyond human comprehension, and it's hurting. The 1979 short story, "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", was made into a Made-For-TV movie. Steel Beach was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1993. Novels in the series include The Ophiuchi Hotline, Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, and Irontown Blues. Cut off from its cultural roots, society quickly grows in new and unexpected ways. Without access to Earth, humanity is forced to get along, as best it can, with the eight settled planets and moons of the system. The basic premise is that in the not-too-distant future, as humanity is starting to settle other planets in the solar system, some Sufficiently Advanced Aliens come along and simply banish humans from Earth, without even an attempt at communication, let alone negotiation. It consists of several novels and a number of short stories. Eight Worlds is a loosely coupled (and not particularly consistent) Science Fiction series by John Varley.
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