

Prescription for Chaos
Author: Christopher Anvil, Eric Flint
Series: Complete Christopher Anvil #7
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Unabridged: 15 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/18/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies
Synopsis
A new wonder drug has the unexpected side effect of making people happy. Not a problem—everybody should want to be happy, right? But should people be happy all of the time? Suppose being happy required you never to disappoint anyone, no matter what they're requesting . . .
Then there was the energy source for every home that would free the country from its dependence on foreign oil—except that the prototype was rushed into production a bit too fast.
Back on the bright side, another device not only couldn't possibly work by every known law of science, but didn't have any obvious uses. Then alien invaders landed and suddenly the crackpot device was the world's only hope.