Med Ship

Med Service #1,2,3,4

by Murray Leinster

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.

This book is a compilation of four books released in the 1960's: The Mutant Weapon, Doctor to the Stars, S.O.S. from Three Worlds and This World is Taboo.

3 • Med Ship Man • (1963)
57 • Plague on Kryder II • (1964)
121 • The Mutant Weapon • (1959)
231 • Ribbon in the Sky • (1957)
285 • Tallien Three (aka The Hate Disease) • (1963)
351 • Quarantine World • (1966)
425 • The Grandfathers' War • (1957)
505 • Pariah Planet (aka This World is Taboo) • (1961)
632 • Editors' Afterword by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon

640 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

see also:
Will F. Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins

Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

An author whose career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. From mystery and adventure stories in the earliest years to science fiction in his later years, he worked steadily and at a highly professional level of craftsmanship longer than most writers of his generation. He won a Hugo Award in 1956 for his novelet “Exploration Team,” and in 1995 the Sidewise Award for Alternate History took its name from his classic story, “Sidewise in Time.” His last original work appeared in 1967.