Final Diagnosis
On sale
27th August 2026
Price: £4.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781399636346
‘Wonderful… suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended’ Starlog
Sector General is a massive hospital station on the galactic rim, with thousands of staff, where alien and human medicine meets. But Patient Hewlitt doesn’t want to meet any kind of alien medicine, doctors or nurses – or aliens of any kind. Which is too bad, as his case is of particular interest to the medical team.
In the meantime, at Sector General it has always been assumed that infections can’t pass between species – but now it looks like they have their first interstellar virus on their hands…
Sector General is a massive hospital station on the galactic rim, with thousands of staff, where alien and human medicine meets. But Patient Hewlitt doesn’t want to meet any kind of alien medicine, doctors or nurses – or aliens of any kind. Which is too bad, as his case is of particular interest to the medical team.
In the meantime, at Sector General it has always been assumed that infections can’t pass between species – but now it looks like they have their first interstellar virus on their hands…
Reviews
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
A fascinating character study whose on-target delineation of the "us" vs. "them" mentality is particularly relevant to out diverse world today; highly recommended
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
Neat, humorous, and humane
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
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
Wonderful... suspenseful, imaginative and humanistic with a wry humour. Highly recommended
Old fans of Sector General will be delighted by this new episode. So will series newcomers
Neat, humorous, and humane
Marvellously entertaining, and the clever medical mystery that underlies everything is nicely done as well. One of the best entries in this popular and inventive series
Sector General is one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist
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
Neat, humorous, and humane