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Resident Physician
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| Resident Physician 10500 words Far out on the galactic Rim, where . . . (oops!, a false start.) The patient brought into the observation ward was a large specimen -- about one thousand pounds mass, Conway estimated -- and resembled a giant upright pear.* But Lonvellin, the ELPH patient, has a much smaller insiderkick. 'Resident Physician' was later subsumed into the novel Star Surgeon, which had the unfortunate effect of making it into an almost 'invisible' story. Whites BIG ALIEN/little alien idea probably had germinated from multiple re-readings of Needle (1950) by Hal clement. Conway to O'Mara: ". . . An intelligent, amoebic life-form, an organized collection of sub-microscopic, virus-type cells, would make the most efficient doctor obtainable." Nanotechnology, in all but name. *In future, all first lines will be quoted from the book version of any story later made part of a fix-up novel. Synopsis by Graham Andrews |
First Publication:
- NEW WORLDS No 110,September 1961
Publication history:
- GALACTIC EMPIRES Vol 1, Ed Brian Alldis, /Futura, Autumn 1976
- GALACTIC EMPIRESWeidenfield & Nicholson, London, hardcover
- IMPERIOS GALaCTICO 2,Editorial Bregeura SA, Barcelona, 1977
- GALACTIC EMPIRES 1, Avon Books pb Edition, $2.25, February 1979.
- GALACTIC EMPIRES combined Vols 1 & 2, Arrow Books, £4-99, 1988
- Star Surgeon (see under Books)
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