Final Diagnosis

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781399636346

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Genre: Classic Science Fiction / Science Fiction

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‘Wonderful… suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended’ Starlog

Sector General is a massive hospital station on the galactic rim, with thousands of staff, where alien and human medicine meets. But Patient Hewlitt doesn’t want to meet any kind of alien medicine, doctors or nurses – or aliens of any kind. Which is too bad, as his case is of particular interest to the medical team.

In the meantime, at Sector General it has always been assumed that infections can’t pass between species – but now it looks like they have their first interstellar virus on their hands…

Reviews

Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
David Langford
A fascinating character study whose on-target delineation of the "us" vs. "them" mentality is particularly relevant to out diverse world today; highly recommended
Library Journal
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
David Langford
Neat, humorous, and humane
The Ultimate Guide to SF
Over the years White has built a large and enthusiastic audience for his Sector General series, which concerns a fully realized interspecies hospital on the rim of the Galaxy. His fascinating cast of characters and his belief in the basic decency of all intelligent life-forms have seen him through six Sector General books over the past quarter century
New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Over the years White has built a large and enthusiastic audience for his Sector General series, which concerns a fully realized interspecies hospital on the rim of the Galaxy. His fascinating cast of characters and his belief in the basic decency of all intelligent life-forms have seen him through six Sector General books over the past quarter century
New Encylopedia of Science Fiction
Wonderful... suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended
Starlog
Old fans of Sector General will be delighted by this new episode. So will series newcomers
Booklist
Neat, humorous, and humane
The Ultimate Guide to SF
Marvellously entertaining, and the clever medical mystery that underlies everything is nicely done as well. One of the best entries in this popular and inventive series
Science Fiction Chronicle
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
David Langford
Over the years White has built a large and enthusiastic audience for his Sector General series, which concerns a fully realized interspecies hospital on the rim of the Galaxy. His fascinating cast of characters and his belief in the basic decency of all intelligent life-forms have seen him through six Sector General books over the past quarter century
New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Neat, humorous, and humane
The Ultimate Guide to SF