At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients, of all species. For decades, these dramas of humanity and humor have commanded a following among...
I'll get to this in more detail later. For now, I'll just note that it's the last of the Sector General books.In fact, it may be the last thing White published. But it doesn't feel like it. There had been many technological changes in our world since the early Sector General stories in the 196...
Cover Artist and Interior Illustrator: Jack GaughanSTRANDED ON A PLANET OF MONSTERSWhen the survivors of his starship were taken prisoner by the insect-creatures against whom Earth had fought a bitter war for nearly a century, Sector Marshal Warren expected to be impounded in a prison camp like t...
Physician, heal thyselfSurgeon-Captain Lioren of the Monitor Corps was a hard-driving perfectionist who expected the same high standards to be met by all who worked with him. But while on a First Contact mission on the planet Cromsag, where plague had reduced a peaceful civilization to barbarism ...
An unidentified object enters the solar system and an exploration team is sent to investigate. No this isn’t Rendezvous with Rama… In fact, All Judgement Fled predates Rama with some three years or so. Where Arthur C. Clarke’s novel is pretty much the genre-defining big-dumb-object, or artifact, ...
Doc Radford, the Exec, Wallis, and First Officer Dickson, together with two badly injured and hysterical nurses...All of them stuck in the pitch dark, bleak cold of a hull several fathoms under water. Unkind chance, instead of killing them, had left them with oxygen tanks and stores of food. Some...
Virtually every scoutship in three Galactic Sectors had been called on to assist in that operation, and Conway had communicated with the majority of them at some stage, but this tenuous connection made Trennelgon’s crew act toward him as if he were a famous relative. So much so that there was no ...
The name which this race had for itself was a short, clicking sound which could be reproduced only by a few of Earth’s top linguists, the difficulties of communication being extreme on both sides. But even so it quickly became evident that the only thing which the aliens had in common with the hu...
One look then was enough for him to dislike this unknown lieutenant immediately. The officer's face was smooth, un-marred. He put on face armor despite the battery of perimeter sprays in operation all around the clearing, and as he began moving toward the C.O.'s tent, MacFall saw him looking at t...
"I have the feeling that you do not want my presence reported to the Masters," he said, "Is this so?" "That is correct," Skorta said. "My reasons are, of course, selfish. Until official cognizance has been taken of your presence on Teldi, I am at liberty to learn as much as possible from you befo...
He was the same shy, awkward man Carson had met a few days earlier, but the difference became apparent as soon as he began to talk. In these surroundings he had a sort of diffident, but very real, authority.As they walked out to the aircraft he called Carson ‘Mr Carson’ and, with some vague idea ...
Prilicla called, excitement causing its hovering flight to become wildly unstable. “Friend Naydrad, send in the probe. The patient is directly beneath me, but I don’t want to risk frightening it by a sudden, close approach. Quickly, it is very weak and in pain.” Now that i...
On the levels which maintained extremes of temperature, pressure or gravity the power was withdrawn causing the ultra-frigid solids to melt and gasify and the dense or superheated atmospheres to condense into a sludgy liquid mess on the floors. Then as the days passed more and more Corpsmen of th...
Sister told him twenty-two thousand years. "Hardly a catnap," said Ross sourly. He felt cheated. His mood of depression, the horrible, aching loneliness, and the awful boredom were with him as strongly as ever. Like his body, they had been preserved intact across the millennia. Perhaps someth...
He had to get to Clara to warn her and to tell her to pack her things. He figured another day at the most and this would be over; he planned for them both to be long gone by then. He swiftly skirted the dark streets, keeping to the side alleys and lanes, all ...