Sector General (collection)
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cover artist: Rick Sternbach
Sector General is a 1983 science fiction story collection by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.[1] The book includes four stories.
Stories
- "Accident": A major accident at a multi-species spaceport inspires the two heroes who ended the human-Orligian war (MacEwan and Grawlya-Ki) to found Sector General.
- "Survivor": A giant snail spacewreck survivor transmits pain and fear while unconscious.
- "Investigation": A spacewreck scene seems to indicate amputations from each victim, causing ambulance commander Fletcher to suspect cannibalism.
- "Combined Operation": The scene of a spacewreck contains hundreds of pods, which turn out to be a colony ship carrying the last survivors of an alien race.
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Sector General for White Dwarf #95, and stated that "its foundling, and ever-intuitive Dr Conway struggles with three implausible new varieties of alien patient."[2]
Reviews
- Review by Dan Chow (1983) in Locus, #266 March 1983[3]
- Review by Tom Easton (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Mid-September 1983
- Review by Terry Broome (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #70
References
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