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Ambulance Ship

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27th August 2026

Price: £4.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781399636308

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The staff of the Sector General hospital could not be more varied.

There’s Thornnastor, the huge, six-legged Tralthan, whose brilliant brain has made him Chief Pathologist.

Dr Prilicla, a fragile, insect-like empath who can sense a patient’s mental state when everything else has failed.

Naydrad, a Kelgian, who are known to be the best nurses.

And then there’s the senior physician, a human called Conway, who was given a chance of a new mission into space, treating emergency patients out in the stars, patients of every size, race, alien form and physiology – all waiting for the arrival of the Ambulance Ship.

But now the medics are in more danger than the victims they are trying to help . . .

Reviews

The Ultimate Guide to SF
Neat, humorous, and humane
David Langford
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Over the years White has built a large and enthusiastic audience for his Sector General series, which concerns a fully realized interspecies hospital on the rim of the Galaxy. His fascinating cast of characters and his belief in the basic decency of all intelligent life-forms have seen him through six Sector General books over the past quarter century