This omnibus collects the second three Sector General books by James White: Ambulance Ship, Sector General and Star Healer, in corrected texts with a restored "Spacebird" sequence and an introduction by David Langford. The series follows the human and alien staff of a vast deep-space hospital whose mission is to treat patients of every species. White's stories mix medical problem-solving, humor and a healer's moral anger, and they are gentler and more idea-driven than most space opera. It suits readers who like classic SF with empathy and wit, and it is the natural next step for anyone who finished the first Sector General omnibus.
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Long-time readers treat the Sector General stories as a high point of humane, idea-rich SF, praising White's alien biology and his calm, decent characters. The main reservations are the dated style and the episodic structure.
Alien Emergencies is an omnibus of the second three volumes in James White's Sector General science fiction series. It collects Ambulance Ship, Sector General, and Star Healer in one edition.
Sector General is a vast hospital complex in the depths of outer space. Thousands of human and alien staff work there with a single mission: to care for all patients of all species. The stories are lively, humorous, and humane. They are inventive dramas of civility and spirituality, and at times they carry a healer's anger at violence and destruction.
The three volumes appear in complete and corrected editions. This includes the sequence "Spacebird," which was omitted from previous American editions of Ambulance Ship. The volume is introduced by David Langford, a Hugo-winning SF writer and critic.
