General Practice: A Sector General Omnibus
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...
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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 science fiction readers. Now, in a single omnibus, the seventh and eighth volumes of the series-Code Blue: Emergency and The Genocidal Healer-return to print, along with an introduction by John Clute.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765306630 (0765306638)
Publish date: May 1st 2003
Publisher: Orb Books
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Series: Sector General 1 (#7)
There is a subgenre of science fiction that is not generally recognized that -- to make up a word -- I will call xeno-anthropological science fiction. It is characterized by positing an extraterrestrial alien sentient species and then exploring the ramifications of its culture. Quite often the explo...