WHO YA GONNA CALL
MED SERVICE!
Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Others have diseases brought to them accidentally—or on purpose—by visiting ships. When millions of lives are threatened, it's a job for the Interstellar Medical Service, and a Med Ship is sent to solve the problem.
Calhoun is the best the Med Service has, and hard experience has taught him that often the major obstacle to curing the sick is ... the sick. And removing that kind of obstacle may take very strong medicine. To find a cure for a disease, Calhoun has the help of his small animal companion Murgatroyd, a formal—a species with the most powerful immune system in the galaxy. But to find a cure for hysteria, prejudice, crime, and even war is much more complicated, requiring considerable ingenuity. Fortunately, ingenuity is something that Calhoun has in good supply...
| Publisher's Note: Med Ship has formerly appeared as four books: The Mutant Weapon, Doctor to the Stars, This World is Taboo, and S.O.S. from Three Worlds. This is the first publication in one book of the complete Med Ship saga. |
"Murray Leinster was not only a very good writer, he was a pioneer. He invented the field of parallel-universe stories with his "Sidewise in Time," and his "First Contact" set the pattern for all the stories that followed of—well—of first contact with alien civilizations. The wondrous thing about his work is that those great, trend-setting stories read as fresh and timely today as they did all those years ago." —Frederik Pohl
"The Dean of modern science fiction!" —Time
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Product ReviewVery good book. I have read it many times. I got it when it used to be free. But worth purchasing.
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Product ReviewLoved the stories in this book. Calhoun is very laid back and deliberate with unusual thought processes that allows him to come up with working solutions. I also want a companion such as Murgatroyd has been!
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Product ReviewD/L'ed on a lark. And boy, was I surprised! Good story telling here.
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Product ReviewI thoroughly enjoyed this book. As previously noted, it was written a long time ago so the science isn't cutting edge, but who cares? Every story was a great read!
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Product Reviewvery good book but you must take into account that it was writen a long time ago so it is very simple in many ways.
as part of SF history writen by the first true SF author, it is a must read for eny dedicated SF junky.
Murry Leinster must have had an amazing mind to write as he did publishing his first book in 1919 and thease storys in the sixtys.Posted on
