Anti-agathic
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An anti-agathic is something serving to prevent death, especially a drug that has this effect. James Blish coined the term in his Cities in Flight series, for the drugs that characters took to give them immortality for long spaceflights.
He first used anti-agapic and anti-athapic in the short stories that became the fix-up Earthman, Come Home in 1955, where he settled on ant-agathic. Other writers picked it up later.
- “Anti-agathic” by Dr. Grant Hutchinson, The Oikofuge, July 26, 2017.
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