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Beginning Operations

AUTHOR: James White
ISBN: 0312875444
SHORT DESCRIPTION: A new omnibus edition features the first three novels from the author's popular Sector General series about a huge hospital in outer space that specializes in treating humans and aliens alike, in an anthology containing Hospital Station, Star...

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Editorial Review

Beginning Operations
- Book Review, by James White

Review
"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." --James Gunn, The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"Neat, humorous, and humane." --The Ultimate Guide to SF

Book Description
Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient--though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems--it all lands on Sector General's doorstep. And the only thing weirder than a hitherto unknown alien species is having a member of that species turn up in your Emergency Room.

The first of two omnibus volumes reprints the works that began the Sector General series, which were previously published as Hospital Station (1962), Star Surgeon (1963), and Major Operation (1971).

About the Author
James White lived in Northern Ireland. He was a popular writer of science fiction for over forty years. He died in 1999.

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Book Review

Beginning Operations
- Book Reviews, by James White

Beginning Operations (Sector General Series)

FROM THE PUBLISHER

James White's novels and stories of Sector General, the vast outer-space hospital that threats humans and aliens alike, have entertained generations of SF fans. Replete with human and alien interaction and intricate puzzle plots, the Sector General tales are ingenious and exciting, and shot through with a healer's anger at irrationality and destructiveness. They are dramas of rationality, tempered with humor and a keen eye for the remarkable in the everyday.

This omnibus includes the titles Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, and Major Operation, along with a new introduction by Brian Stableford.

FROM THE CRITICS

Starlog

Wonderful...suspenseful, imaginative, and humanistic, with a wry humor. Highly recommended.

Romantic Times

Pure catnip for science fiction fans.

Locus

Consistently entertaining, combining the best features of first-contact SF with the human interest of hospital stories.

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