Final Diagnosis
It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim - 384 levels, a staff of
thousands - where human and alien medicine meet.
But Patient
Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine - or
alien doctors, or alien nurses, or aliens of any kind. Which is just too bad; he's an interesting case, and he'll have to get used to it.
In the meantime, it's always been an article of faith among Sector
General's multispecies staff that infections can't pass from one alien
race to another. But in this season of anomalies, it looks like they
might have their first-ever interstellar virus on their hands, their
tentacles, their cilla...
Combining intrigue, ingenious puzzles
(and even more ingenious solutions), action, adventure and White's
characteristic easy charm, Final Diagnosis is a science-fiction treat.
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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 creative essays to fanzines like Slant and Hyphen.
Sector General
Sector General consists of twelve books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
