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Alan E. Nourse (1928–1992)

Autor/a de Star Surgeon

101+ obres 1,993 Membres 53 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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Obres de Alan E. Nourse

Star Surgeon (1959) 169 exemplars
LIFE Science Library: The Body (1964) 165 exemplars
Intern (1965) 154 exemplars
The Universe Between (1951) 133 exemplars
The Mercy Men (1968) 128 exemplars
Tiger by the Tail (1961) 116 exemplars
The Counterfeit Man (1952) — Autor — 111 exemplars
The Bladerunner (1974) 108 exemplars
Raiders from the Rings (1962) 103 exemplars
Trouble on Titan (1954) 95 exemplars
Scavengers in Space (1958) 83 exemplars
Psi High and Others (1967) 79 exemplars
Rocket to limbo (1957) 51 exemplars
Rocket To Limbo / Echo In The Skull (Ace Double) (1959) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
The Invaders Are Coming (1959) 38 exemplars
The Fourth Horseman (1983) 25 exemplars
Gold in the Sky (2008) 16 exemplars
Your Immune System (1982) 15 exemplars
Nine Planets (1960) 15 exemplars
The Practice (1978) 15 exemplars
The Coffin Cure (2010) 13 exemplars
Derelict (2011) 11 exemplars
Brightside Crossing (1956) 11 exemplars
Rx for tomorrow (1971) 10 exemplars
The Giant Planets (First Book) (1974) 9 exemplars
Consignment (2012) 8 exemplars
The Dark Door (2009) 8 exemplars
Meeting of the Board (2010) 7 exemplars
Infinite Intruder (2010) 7 exemplars
Martyr (2011) 7 exemplars
Image of the Gods (2010) 7 exemplars
Second Sight (2010) 6 exemplars
Inside the Mayo Clinic (1979) 6 exemplars
Radio Astronomy (1989) 6 exemplars
Letter of the Law (2010) 6 exemplars
My Friend Bobby (2010) 6 exemplars
AIDS (Impact Books) (1986) 6 exemplars
The Elk Hunt (1986) 6 exemplars
Contamination Crew (2011) 5 exemplars
The backyard astronomer (1973) 5 exemplars
Circus (2016) 5 exemplars
The Native Soil (2010) 5 exemplars
PRoblem (2014) 4 exemplars
An Ounce of Cure (2011) 4 exemplars
The Link (2010) 4 exemplars
Teen guide to AIDS prevention (1990) 3 exemplars
Menstruation (1987) 3 exemplars
Teen guide to survival (1990) 3 exemplars
Vitamins (Concise guides) (1977) 3 exemplars
So You Want to be an Engineer (1962) 3 exemplars
Prime Difference (2016) 3 exemplars
Marley's Chain (2016) 3 exemplars
Bear Trap (2016) 2 exemplars
Birth Control (Teen Guide to) (1988) 2 exemplars
Hormones (An Impact Book) (1979) 2 exemplars
The Brain Sinner 2 exemplars
Family Resemblance 2 exemplars
The Asteroids (First Books) (1975) 2 exemplars
So You Want to Be a Doctor (1963) 2 exemplars
Junior Intern (1955) 2 exemplars
A Miracle Too Many 1 exemplars
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (1992) 1 exemplars
Heir Apparent 1 exemplars
Bramble Bush 1 exemplars
The Body 1 exemplars
Tooth Book (1977) 1 exemplars
Kandidaten 1 exemplars
Herpes (1985) 1 exemplars
Teen guide to safe sex (1988) 1 exemplars
Four Science Fiction Stories (2021) 1 exemplars
Infinite Intruder 1 exemplars
Bear Trap 1 exemplars
Second Sight and Other SF (2008) 1 exemplars
Fertőzöttek 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963) — Col·laborador — 455 exemplars
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) — Col·laborador — 407 exemplars
Science Fiction Omnibus (1952) — Col·laborador — 340 exemplars
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Col·laborador — 248 exemplars
10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1965) — Col·laborador — 178 exemplars
Space Odyssey (1983) — Col·laborador — 138 exemplars
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1955) — Col·laborador — 116 exemplars
Beyond Tomorrow (1934) — Col·laborador — 107 exemplars
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 14th Series (1965) — Autor, algunes edicions107 exemplars
An ABC of Science Fiction (1809) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
Science Fiction Terror Tales (1955) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
Thor's Hammer (1979) — Col·laborador — 92 exemplars
The Science Fictional Solar System (1951) — Col·laborador — 92 exemplars
Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium (1974) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) (1985) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
The World That Couldn't Be and 8 Other Novelets From "Galaxy" (1959) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
Young Mutants (1984) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
The Spear of Mars (1980) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Orion's Sword (1980) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
Tales from Super-Science Fiction (2012) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (1982) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Great Science Fiction about Doctors (1963) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology (1978) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Science Fiction Adventures in Dimension (1930) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions44 exemplars
Science Fiction Oddities (1966) — Autor — 43 exemplars
SF: Authors' Choice 2 (1970) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Astounding Science Fiction 1953 02 (1953) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Die besten Science Fiction Geschichten (1962) — Autor, algunes edicions11 exemplars
Galaxy Science Fiction 1953 December, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1953) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Galaxy Science Fiction 1957 June, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1957) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space (1980) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction (1975) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Galaxy Science Fiction 1957 April, Vol. 13, No. 6 (1957) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction (1988) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Universe Ahead: Stories of the Future (1975) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Satellite Science Fiction October 1957 (1957) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Worlds of If Science Fiction 42, October 1957 (Vol. 7, No. 6) (1957) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Worlds of If Science Fiction 38, February 1957 (Vol. 7, No. 2) (1957) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Imagination, October 1953 (Vol. 4 ∙ No. 9) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Fantastic science fiction stories. No. 068 (June 1960) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Amazing Stories Vol. 32, No. 5 [May 1958] (1958) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Coneixement comú

Nom oficial
Nourse, Alan Edward
Altres noms
Dr. X
Data de naixement
1928-08-11
Data de defunció
1992-07-19
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Lloc de defunció
Thorp, Washington, USA
Educació
Rutgers University
University of Pennsylvania
Professions
physician
columnist
Organitzacions
United States Navy
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Alan Nourse was a science fiction writer with a day job as a practicing physician. He began writing science fiction to help pay for his medical education and continued writing in the genre for over 30 years. In his first novel, Trouble on Titan (1954), a boy travels to Titan with his stiff-necked military father. He makes friends on Titan and helps his father deal with a dangerous rebellion. There are other surprises as father and son each have things to learn. The adventure keeps moving, and the science elements are not as dated as one might expect, with one glaring exception--no one would use wood to shore up a mine tunnel on Titan. Nourse and Robert Heinlein were friends for decades, and Trouble on Titan reads like an early Heinlein juvenile, which is not a bad thing.… (més)
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Tom-e | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Feb 7, 2024 |
I remember reading Intern either during first year of medical school or the summer before. It scared me to death, thinking this was what I had to look forward to. But later in the midst of it I loved every minute.

I graduated from Med school in 1978 and many of the procedures and treatments Doctor X details here were just starting to become obsolete. It is a VERY realistic picture of hospital medicine before technology. My father was an intern in 1946, so much of Doctor X experiences were novel, although they were both on call from Friday morning to Monday.

Anyway this is a well written description of medicine at the dawn of the “ we can do something for this patient other than morphine” age, and before CT scans ( I saw the first CT scan on one of my patients at Hopkins)

This book is important for another reason. Despite all the technology, what makes a great doctor hasn't changed. Just reading his introduction to Pediatrics brought tears to my eyes. . He and the nurses recognize kind compassionate and expert docs when they see them , and you will too.
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fcpiii | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jan 23, 2024 |
This is a very diverse collection for a single author anthology. The range is particularly impressively given that this is not a career retrospective but covers just the few years from 1952 through 1956. "Second Sight" is a solid early entry to the Hoffman Medical Center "Psi High" stories, though not listed as such in the Internet SF Database. It makes for an interesting almost sequel to "My Friend Bobby", the best story in the book, on how telepathy can breed monsters on both sides of the parent-child relationship. "The Canvas Bag" is a quiet mood piece from F&SF. "An Ounce of Cure" and "Meeting of the Board" are overdone comic inferno stories. "The Counterfeit Man" is an overwrought variation on Campbell's "Who Goes There" where the main character spins an incredibly complicated -- but true -- hypothesis about shape-changing aliens based on no evidence at all. "The Expert Touch" is a forced, predictable story about psychological manipulation, salvaged slightly by just the right closing line. The other stories, including "The Link" and "Circus" that are original to the collection, are similarly contrived idea stories.

Other than "My Friend Bobby" and "Second Sight", there's not much here for the modern reader, but this is a solid and representative collection for fans of 1950s American SF.
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½
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Obres
101
També de
46
Membres
1,993
Popularitat
#12,911
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
53
ISBN
229
Llengües
6
Preferit
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