Alien Emergencies: A Sector General Omnibus

Review May Contain Spoilers.

Title: Alien Emergencies: A Sector General Omnibus
Author : James White
Format: Amazon Kindle

I like older science fiction. It is interesting to see the speed of change that has changed our thoughts and habits when it comes to technology and discovery. I like how pure fiction was a few decades ago. Everyone came at everything with an individual attitude and not as many factors were consistent because the discovers that teach us consistency now had not yet been made.

I advise that if you are a purest who can only accept the most current technological fiction, don't read these.

If you like a good solid story with interesting characters and an interesting world and interesting ways of solving their problem, these stories are amazing. The situations and stories are fun, unique and a bit quirky. The author steps it up a notch by stepping out of normal comfort areas and speculating on other lifeforms. Methane, Crystal? Bring it all on.

That is what makes Sector General fun. The stories are short stories linked together. The characters are the same but it is not one great story that covers the entire book. It is a series of smaller stories that build up the world. Each is created and resolved but they do not end abruptly but build into the next story. The past is not forgotten and it causes the future to develop depth an consistency.

It is easy to care about the people. It is easy to care about the patients. You wish that you wanted to be a doctor because it seems to be the most interesting profession ever. It is healing instead of killing but it is just as potent and mind bending. The world isn't going to end but they do have to keep the hospital together, somehow.

It is worth the time to read it if you like world immersion and character driven story lines.