Drug glands? George Alec Effinger, 'When Gravity Fails', 1986, https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/mode/2up?q=gland https://archive.org/

Drug glands? George Alec Effinger, 'When Gravity Fails', 1986, https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/mode/2up?q=gland https://archive.org/details/whengravityfails00effi/page/72/m... > Bill selected a more subtle, more frightening bodmod: He had one of his lungs removed and replaced with a large, artificial gland that dripped a perpetual, measured quantity of some fourth-generation psychedelic drug into his bloodstream. At some point you need to wonder what "idea" means, like, what is the idea of a GSV? A giant FTL vessel? The Death Star is one of those. In the Dr. Who episode 'The Pirate Planet' we find the planet they are on is actually a spaceship made of a hollowed-out planet. Add enough qualifiers and eventually you get something unique.