161 ba84d7a4-05da-4ed5-8b2e-9459173c49c0 Beginning operations James White calibre (0.6.35) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 2001-05-14T23:00:00 UND SUMMARY: 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). Orb 9780312875442 Science fiction Fantasy Adventure General Science Fiction - General Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction - Science Fiction Medical Space Opera Short stories Life on other planets Human-alien encounters Science Fiction - Series English Space medicine Anthologies (non-poetry) Fiction anthologies & collections Medical fiction Hospitals Medical novels Hospital Administration & Care