Brandname of a "
translation drug" obtained from
lichens on the
Proxima star system, and brought back to our
Solar system by
Palmer Eldritch, in
Philip K. Dick's book "
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch".
Marketed under the
slogan:
GOD PROMISES ETERNAL LIFE. WE CAN DELIVER IT, it takes its consumers to a
virtual world, as
real as
reality, as well as to any type of world the
consumer could
imagine or
create.
Takers of
Chew-Z can spend
hours,
weeks, or
years in the virtual worlds, and when they decide to come back, a mere second or two would have passed in
normal time.