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“Normality” involves comparison to a standard—but how do you judge the standard?

The old prison planet idea brought to startling life by that master of Science Fiction James White, humans captured by aliens put on a prison planet to fend for themselves, but there’s a visit from the Sector Marshall…

Chirurgien galactique est le deuxième tome de la courte série Le Secteur Général, de James White. Dans le premier volume, L'Hôpital des étoiles, nous découvrions le gigantesque centre de soins construit par la Fédération Galactique, capable d'accueillir et de soigner toutes les créatures de la galaxie.

Le personnage principal des deux romans, Conway, est un médecin terrien, talentueux, mais un peu immature. Il est chaperonné par le psychiatre et directeur du Secteur Général, O’Mara.

Das Projekt ist gigantisch: ein Krankenhaus im All, das dafür vorgesehen und dazu eingerichtet ist, selbst den bizarrsten Lebensformen der Galaxis im Krankheitsfall oder bei Unfällen zu helfen. Ebenso ungewöhnlich wie die Patienten sind auch die Ärzte und das Pflegepersonal des Krankenhauses. Dennoch sind nicht immer die geeigneten Spezialisten vorhanden, häufig weiß man nur wenig über Metabolismus, Verhaltensweise oder Krankheit eines neuen Patienten.

Dann beginnt ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um die richtige Diagnose zu stellen und die Heilbehandlung einzuleiten. Nicht selten geschieht das erst in letzter Sekunde, am Rand der Katastrophe…

Le Secteur General. Le projet le plus fou et le plus noble des races intelligentes de la galaxie avait abouti à cet incroyable archipel métallique. Des kilomètres d'éléments rassemblés pour former l'hôpital de toutes les humanités. Un univers qui défiait la raison et le courage des docteurs, des chirurgiens et des psychiatres qui avaient juré de sauver coûte que coûte la vie de microbes évolués, de monstres aberrants, de léviathans hystériques...

While James White is best known for the Sector General series, he has written many more science fiction novels. This is one of his best, easily equal to any of the Sector general series. The book is set in a near future after humanity’s contact with aliens. The aliens offer to relocate all of mankind who qualifies to the Federation World, a Dyson sphere near the center of the galaxy. The principal characters are not accepted for citizenship, instead qualifying for positions on the Federation staff. Their job is to make contact with new species and to invite them to join the Federation if they qualify. White’s writing is remarkably clear and easy to read.

Code Blue — Emergency is a 1987 science fiction novel written by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

White said in an interview that originally he intended to end the series with (1985), by which time the central characters had reached the top levels in their careers. However Ballantine Books persuaded him to continue, and he extended the stories’ range by introducing new central characters beginning with .

The protagonist of the story is Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat. She bravely saved a human pilot who crashlanded on her planet, despite a complete lack of knowledge about his physiology. Contact with her species was established by the accident, so knowledge of their social customs is still virtually non-existent. However, she is invited to join the Sector General staff.

Cha Thrat innocently wreaks havoc by following her instincts and social customs. First she befriends a hypochondriac Chalder. Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (see Star Healer.) When given the honor of cutting the limb, she obliges — and then deliberately cuts her own arm off as well, in accordance with the custom of her people. Next she saves the untouchable patient Khone (see Star Healer), and then finds a weird parasite species on a derelict spaceship. Due to the chaos she causes, every department in the hospital now refuses to allow her near their patients. O’Mara values her unusual approaches, and decides to add her to his staff.

Książkę tworzą luźno powiązane opowiadania: Wypadek, Rozbitek, Śledztwo oraz Złożona operacja. Pierwsze wyjaśnia genezę Szpitala Kosmicznego oraz przybliża nadal po części tajemniczą postać naczelnego psychologa Szpitala, majora OMary. Szpital Główny Sektora Dwunastego, do którego przyczyniła się paradoksalnie wojna Ziemian z Orligianami, to jedna z najnowocześniejszych placówek medycznych. Jego personel udziela pierwszej pomocy jeszcze w przestrzeni, na pokładzie statku szpitalnego Rhabwar. Doktor Conway, patolog Murchison, empata Prilicla i siostra Naydrad spotykają się tam z niesamowitymi przypadkami — choćby z bezbronnym na pozór ślimakowatym EGCL, który ogłusza wrogów emocjami i może zagrozić całemu Szpitalowi, czy kolonią tajemniczych symbiontów, które — wszystko na to wskazuje — padły ofiarą kanibala.

Po zjedzeniu trującego owocu pessinith i upadku z wysokiego drzewa mały Hewlitt powinien być martwy. Przeżył, jednak cudowne ocalenie stało się początkiem koszmaru. Odtąd przez całe życie z jego organizmem dzieją się dziwne rzeczy, a kolejni lekarze sugerują hipochondrię i problemy psychiczne. Badania w Szpitalu Kosmicznym też zmierzają wyraźnie ku znienawidzonej przez Hewlitta diagnozie… dopóki nie okazuje się, że Ziemianin jest nosicielem wirusa, który może zagrozić całej Federacji.

James White (1928–1999) — genialny twórca SF. Współwydawca czasopism "Slant" i "Hyphen". Debiutował w "Astounding Science Fiction". Największą popularność przyniósł mu cykl powieści o medycynie kosmicznej. REBIS opublikował dotąd dziewięć tomów tego cyklu: Szpital Kosmiczny, Gwiezdny chirurg, Trudna operacja, Statek szpitalny, Sektor Dwunasty, Gwiezdny terapeuta, Stan zagrożenia, Lekarz dnia sądu i Galaktyczny smakosz.

ORBIT HOSPITAL ist ein Klinikum im All, das allen raumfahrenden Lebensformen der Galaxis medizinische Hilfe leistet. Es nimmt alle Geschöpfe auf, ob sie ein Dutzend Gliedmaßen haben oder gar keine, ob sie sich von Radioaktivität ernähren oder Wasser atmen — von anderen exotischen Gewohnheiten und Bedürfnissen ganz zu schweigen. Es ist ein ökologisches Tollhaus und ein organisatorischer Irrwitz, aber es ist für alle da und es funktioniert. Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes — lebensnotwendig.

ORBIT HOSPITAL ist ein Klinikum im All, das allen raumfahrenden Lebensformen der Galaxis medizinische Hilfe leistet. Es nimmt alle Geschöpfe auf, ob sie ein Dutzend Gliedmaßen haben oder gar keine, ob sie sich von Radioaktivität ernähren oder Wasser atmen — von anderen exotischen Gewohnheiten und Bedürfnissen ganz zu schweigen. Es ist ein ökologisches Tollhaus und ein organisatorischer Irrwitz, aber es ist für alle da und es funktioniert. Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes — lebensnotwendig.

ORBIT HOSPITAL ist ein Klinikum im All, das allen raumfahrenden Lebensformen der Galaxis medizinische Hilfe leistet. Es nimmt alle Geschöpfe auf, ob sie ein Dutzend Gliedmaßen haben oder gar keine, ob sie sich von Radioaktivität ernähren oder Wasser atmen — von anderen exotischen Gewohnheiten und Bedürfnissen ganz zu schweigen. Es ist ein ökologisches Tollhaus und ein organisatorischer Irrwitz, aber es ist für alle da und es funktioniert. Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes — lebensnotwendig.

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Przez lata personel Szpitala Kosmicznego musiał sobie radzić z wieloma zagrożeniami — od plagi wywołanej przez żywność do żywności wyglądającej jak pacjent. Teraz stanął w obliczu kolejnego: naczelny psycholog O'Mara został tymczasowym szefem placówki, a po wyszkoleniu następcy czeka go obowiązkowa emerytura. Nikt w Szpitalu Kosmicznym nie może sobie wyobrazić, co zrobią bez niego, zakładając optymistycznie, że przetrwają na tyle długo, by się o tym przekonać.

Dr. Conway must deal with an unconscious patient, classification ELPH, who may be a cannibal or a demigod, or both. It came from the “other galaxy”, and the species is well known, almost infamous, to the Ians, who are also from another galaxy. It is extremely long-lived, and regularly takes complete rejuvenation treatments, including the brain and memory, to keep itself young. By doing this, it is practically immortal. It, although unconscious, appeared to have the ability to negate the most powerful drugs and resist surgery to cure its skin condition. This later turned out to be the work of the entity’s “doctor”, who is an intelligent, organized collection of microscopic, virus-type cells. Once Doctor Conway realizes this, he uses a wooden stake to make the ELPH’s doctor focus itself in one small location, at which time it is removed from the ELPH, informed regarding the physiology-problems of its patient, and put back in. The patient, whose name is Lonvellin, quickly makes a full recovery, and it leaves to do what it does best: missions that involve taking backwards planetary cultures and pulling them up “by their bootstraps”. His particular mission, this time, is to cure a diseased planet called Etla, and he recruits Dr. Conway and the “Monitor Corps” to help him. When The Empire that controls the Planet of Etla misinterprets Lonvellin’s efforts as an Act of War, the Empire declares war on the Sector General space hospital.

Conway helps organise the evacuation of most of the station’s staff and patients, and following the death or injury of more senior staff, becomes the most senior surviving physician. After a brutal series of attacks, and with the hospital on the brink of defeat, a group of Federation and Empire soldiers convince Conway to help in a mutiny against the Federation commander Dermod. The Empire soldiers had been told that the Federation had attacked Etla, rather than trying to help it, but seeing the way all casualties were treated equally on the station, and in particular witnessing Conway breaking down after failing to save the life of an alien Empire soldier, convinced them that they had been lied to.

Mind Changer is a 1998 science fiction book by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

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The Galactic Gourmet is a 1996 science fiction book by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

Todd Richmond wrote that the Sector General series declined after (1985), hitting a low point with , and that the later books tended to stretch a short story’s worth of content to the length of a novel. However he thought that (1998) represented an improvement.

A famous chef wangles an appointment to Sector General for the challenge of creating food for so many different species. Like the Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat (Code Blue — Emergency), he creates chaos everywhere he goes.

He first meets the swimming "crocodile-like" Chaldars, who complain that their food is unsatisfying. Realising that they are accustomed to capturing their food live, he develops motile food for them. They are delighted, but they completely destroy their hospital ward charging around chasing it.

Next, he learns that the spray-on food used to nourish the Hudlar is uninteresting. His investigations show that it needs small toxins to "flavor" it, which would be found naturally on their home planet. He visits a Hudlar ship, but causes a huge cargo bay accident expelling him into space. He rescues himself by riding some sprayers back to the station, but is in everyone’s bad books.

Sympathetic staffers hide him on the ambulance ship Rhabwar for an upcoming assignment. In the meantime, an epidemic at the hospital turns out to be a major nutmeg overdose caused by a sous-chef foolishly using ten times the required amount in a recipe.

The Rhabwar is sent to a starving planet, whose people think their dwindling meat supply is the only desirable food and are shamed by its lack. He is able to commune with their first Cook better than the diplomats are doing. He finds ways to improve their sad vegetarian diet, and helps to set more positive attitudes toward it. The Cook’s son is wounded on a game-hunting expedition, and the medical ship takes him on board for healing. The populace grows very angry, mystifying the team. They finally recall the aliens’ cannibal tradition and produce him alive.

ORBIT HOSPITAL ist ein Klinikum im All, das allen raumfahrenden Lebensformen der Galaxis medizinische Hilfe leistet. Es nimmt alle Geschöpfe auf, ob sie ein Dutzend Gliedmaßen haben oder gar keine, ob sie sich von Radioaktivität ernähren oder Wasser atmen — von anderen exotischen Gewohnheiten und Bedürfnissen ganz zu schweigen. Es ist ein ökologisches Tollhaus und ein organisatorischer Irrwitz, aber es ist für alle da und es funktioniert. Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes — lebensnotwendig.

ORBIT HOSPITAL ist ein Klinikum im All, das allen raumfahrenden Lebensformen der Galaxis medizinische Hilfe leistet. Es nimmt alle Geschöpfe auf, ob sie ein Dutzend Gliedmaßen haben oder gar keine, ob sie sich von Radioaktivität ernähren oder Wasser atmen — von anderen exotischen Gewohnheiten und Bedürfnissen ganz zu schweigen. Es ist ein ökologisches Tollhaus und ein organisatorischer Irrwitz, aber es ist für alle da und es funktioniert. Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes — lebensnotwendig.

The dejected Surgeon-Captain Lioren is disappointed that his Court-martial has rejected the death penalty for him, and instead has assigned him to O’Mara at Sector General. He is plagued with guilt, because he is responsible for the genocide of an entire race. At moments during his new tasks, he ponders the individual events that led up to the alien deaths.

First contact with the Cromsag planet was quickly followed by the discovery that their entire population was wasting away from some unidentified disease. They were starving, and their birth rate was absymal. Additionally, they were continually in hand-to-hand combat with each other, presumably competing for food.

The Sector General ships hurriedly provided food to malnourished people everywhere, along with medical aid for combat injuries, and tried to determine the cause of the mysterious disease. Despite their best efforts, deaths from the plague continued to increase. Lioren grew frustrated with the slow process of sending samples back to Sector General and awaiting diagnostics and full tests to ensure the effectiveness of potential cures. In his arrogance, he administered a treatment to the entire population… and they rose up and slaughtered each other, wiping out their own race.

Interspersed with recalling these events, he shares some of his story with people at Sector General. Lioren speaks to the terminally ill Dr. Mannen, eventually reviving Mannen’s interest in life. Lioren also offers encouragement to the isolated alien Khone (see Star Healer.) Next he is asked to speak to a gigantic Groalterri, whose race is so advanced they have until now refused all contact with the federated planets. The humans are desperate to make any sort of progress with this race, but the Groalterri patient won’t communicate with anyone. Bit by bit, Lioren shares his own guilty history and talks the suicidal alien into lowering its emotional barriers. From its story he manages to figure out the Groalterri’s hitherto unknown injury and arrange surgery that will change its life. Finally, at the end, Lioren meets with the handful of Cromsag survivors.