This is the second installment of the Sector General series, about a huge multi-species hospital on the edges of the galaxy.

Sector General is a hospital station - a place where all kinds of patients and medics from all worlds are welcome. But for the first time, the hospital is threatened by creatures too different its purpose, and so powerful that they can cause utter havoc! The book tells the story of the events that culminated in the Etlan War.

Here are all the strange and not so strange creatures who inhabit James White's hospital in space as both doctors and patients: the human doctor ZConway, plus two-ton doctors with four-ton patients, creatures which are multi-legged and telepathic, gas breathers, underwater behemoths - a wild and wooly assortment of denizens from all parts of the galaxy.

"Sector General" is a mercy station - a place where all kinds from all worlds are welcome. But for the first time, the hospital itself is threatened by creatures too differnet to understand its purpose ans so powerful that they can cause utter havoc!

Published
1963
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James White

James White, 1928-1999, was the creator of the famed Sector General stories about a huge intergalactic, multi-species hospital. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has lived there his entire life. White's writing is particularly noteworthy for endlessly inventive aliens and alien environments. He started writing science fiction in 1953, besides the Sector General stories and novels, perhaps his most famous works are the novel The Watch Below, and the Hugo nominated story "Custom Fitting." In addition to his professional work, James White was a mainstay of Irish Fandom for more than forty years, contributing distinguished and…