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Great Science Fiction About Doctors

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
1963

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1963

Pages
  
412

Page count
  
412

Publisher
  
Collier Books

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Author
  
edited by Groff and Noah D. Fabricant

Great Science Fiction About Doctors is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin and Noah D. Fabricant, M.D. It was first published in paperback by Collier Books in 1963, and was reprinted in 1965, 1966, and 1970. The two later collaborated on a second anthology, Great Detective Stories About Doctors.

The book collects eighteen novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with a general introduction and short introductions to each story by the editors. Several of the stories are by as well as about doctors. They were previously published from 1844-1959 in various magazines.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Noah D. Fabricant, M.D. and Groff Conklin)
  • "The Man Without an Appetite" (Miles J. Breuer, M.D.)
  • "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting" (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • "The Brothers" (Clifton Dance, Jr., M.D.)
  • "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" (Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D.)
  • "Compound B" (David Harold Fink, M.D.)
  • "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • "The Psychophonic Nurse" (David H. Keller, M.D.)
  • "The Little Black Bag" (C. M. Kornbluth)
  • "Ribbon in the Sky" (Murray Leinster)
  • "Mate in Two Moves" (Winston K. Marks)
  • "Bedside Manner" (William Morrison)
  • "The Shopdropper" (Alan Nelson)
  • "Family Resemblance" (Alan E. Nourse, M.D.)
  • "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • "Emergency Operation" (Arthur Porges)
  • "A Matter of Ethics" (J. R. Shango)
  • "Bolden's Pets" (F. L. Wallace)
  • "Expedition Mercy" (J. A. Winter, M.D.)

    • References

    Great Science Fiction About Doctors Wikipedia
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