The God Drug is about the collapse of civilization by the miracle of science. “What would you do if someone offered a drug that boosted your intelligence by 30%? Or more, say, fifty to sixty percent? I know what you’d do—the same thing I did. Take it without hesitation. This is what happened back in the Old Times to just about everybody. You can’t blame folks for giving in to the promise of intellectual superiority. “We found out too late that Cogidene eats the brain. Welcome to the Charnel House.” So writes Elliot Thomas, the last person on Earth to publish a memoir. Survivor of the Great Die Back, Elliot is left to record what caused the catastrophe. He lives in a public library where he preserves the essential books of science, along with the masterpieces of Homer, Shakespeare, and Hemingway from going the way of toilet paper. In this brief history at the end of the world, Elliot tells of a courageous physician who battles the pharmaceutical industry to prevent civilization’s collapse. Here is the story of lost love and mistaken identity with an apocalyptic twist set in a world of brain damaged zombies.