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Med Service #1-2
Quarantine World
/ 0881848441 / Science fiction / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / Pocket / Poche / Taschenbuch / 11 x 18 cm / 266 .pp /
- GenresScience FictionFiction
266 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1992
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Murray Leinster
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Will F. Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
An author whose career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. From mystery and adventure stories in the earliest years to science fiction in his later years, he worked steadily and at a highly professional level of craftsmanship longer than most writers of his generation. He won a Hugo Award in 1956 for his novelet “Exploration Team,” and in 1995 the Sidewise Award for Alternate History took its name from his classic story, “Sidewise in Time.” His last original work appeared in 1967.
Will F. Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
An author whose career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. From mystery and adventure stories in the earliest years to science fiction in his later years, he worked steadily and at a highly professional level of craftsmanship longer than most writers of his generation. He won a Hugo Award in 1956 for his novelet “Exploration Team,” and in 1995 the Sidewise Award for Alternate History took its name from his classic story, “Sidewise in Time.” His last original work appeared in 1967.
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June 4, 2018
Well. Hm. Pretty badly written. Apparently collected from different magazines and reprinted as a sampler of Med Ship/ Dr. Calhoun stories... and not rewritten, because the recaps & repetitive bits were annoying as heck. And without character development, each adventure bleeds into another... especially because the answer to the mystery in each case here was similar. Maybe other Med Ship stories have different 'diseases' or problems, I dunno.
This one includes the novella The Mutant Weapon and the stories Plague on Kryder II, Ribbon in the Sky, and Quarantine World. I feel as if that's enough for me. I'll still read the other, unrelated, collection by the author that I own, but for now I am questioning my memory about whether I like his work or not. I thought I did, but gee, not based on this! We'll see....
This one includes the novella The Mutant Weapon and the stories Plague on Kryder II, Ribbon in the Sky, and Quarantine World. I feel as if that's enough for me. I'll still read the other, unrelated, collection by the author that I own, but for now I am questioning my memory about whether I like his work or not. I thought I did, but gee, not based on this! We'll see....
July 7, 2017
Four of Leinster's enjoyable "Med Service" stories make up this collection.
The Medical Service is an organization that sends small medical starships out to the various colonized worlds of the galaxy. Each ship includes one human medical doctor and one tormal, a small cat-like mammal with a remarkable immune system that's both human-compatible and resistant to nearly all infectious diseases. The Med Service stories follow the adventures of the Med Ship, Asclepius Twenty, crewed by the human Calhoun and the tormal Murgatroyd. Each story presents a new challenge for the team, sometimes directly in their line of work, such as a plague, and sometimes indirectly, such as interplanetary political shenanigans that need to be sorted out.
There are many Med Service stories and there are a confusing assortment of incomplete books. I picked this one up at random in a used book store. If you're interested in the series, I suggest looking instead for the Baen Books volume titled "Med Ship", first published in 1983 and reprinted in 2002. As far as I know that's the only single volume containing all the stories. Most other books, like this one, contain only three or four.
The stories are typical to above average 1950/1960 pulp fare. If you're a fan of Leinster or science fiction of that era, these are readable, enjoyable stories.
The Medical Service is an organization that sends small medical starships out to the various colonized worlds of the galaxy. Each ship includes one human medical doctor and one tormal, a small cat-like mammal with a remarkable immune system that's both human-compatible and resistant to nearly all infectious diseases. The Med Service stories follow the adventures of the Med Ship, Asclepius Twenty, crewed by the human Calhoun and the tormal Murgatroyd. Each story presents a new challenge for the team, sometimes directly in their line of work, such as a plague, and sometimes indirectly, such as interplanetary political shenanigans that need to be sorted out.
There are many Med Service stories and there are a confusing assortment of incomplete books. I picked this one up at random in a used book store. If you're interested in the series, I suggest looking instead for the Baen Books volume titled "Med Ship", first published in 1983 and reprinted in 2002. As far as I know that's the only single volume containing all the stories. Most other books, like this one, contain only three or four.
The stories are typical to above average 1950/1960 pulp fare. If you're a fan of Leinster or science fiction of that era, these are readable, enjoyable stories.
July 23, 2017
I mostly enjoyed this.
The author has a habit of restating things written on the previous page, in the previous paragraph, or even just the previous sentence.
I'm sure there is a good literary reason, but I found it annoying.
The author has a habit of restating things written on the previous page, in the previous paragraph, or even just the previous sentence.
I'm sure there is a good literary reason, but I found it annoying.
June 11, 2019
Leinster's Med series books have a more modern feel than his other SF. If you've never read one, it might be worth a peek.
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