Sector General (novel)

Sector General is a 1983 science fiction novel by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.[1] The book includes four stories.

First edition (publ. Del Rey Books)
cover artist: Rick Sternbach

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.
gollark: That was probably easier back when those fields were somewhat smaller.
gollark: There are lots of ways to make it break stuff less.
gollark: Or all currently existing AI has weird conceptual limitations like being unable to think about thinking about thinking (or other two level deep meta-thinking).
gollark: Or AI which is technically usable but needs exponentially increasing amounts of computing power for linear intelligence increases.
gollark: Or invariably deletes itself or goes crazy after a while.

References
  1. ""James White"", Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 261, British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Since 1960, Gale Research Publications, retrieved 17 December 2008
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