5 books by James White
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Overview: James White was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories, and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending early years in Canada.
He is probably best-known as the author of the Sector General series of novels. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were written as full-length novels. The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last published posthumously in 1999. The short-story collection The Aliens Among Us (1969) is also related to the Sector General series, since it includes the Sector General story "Countercharm" and the quasi-Sector General story "Occupation: Warrior".
Genre: Science Fiction
All Judgment Fled
In such books as Hospital Station and Star Surgeon, James White has built an enviable reputation as a writer of science fiction about the future of medical science and what it may be like to treat and care for a staggering variety of alien life-forms. He has an extraordinary talent for creating believable but utterly alien extra-terrestrials.
In All Judgment Fled, he considers the critically important ‘first contact’ between humans and others – and of how political expediency could make this a bloodbath for mankind.
Federation World
The Federation of Galactic Sentients had a mission. As new planets and species were discovered and assessed, the deserving of their populations were invited to move en masse to the fabulous Federation World, a modified Dyson Sphere located in the galactic core.
But not all of the Federation inductees were suited to the idyllic life of the World. Martin and Beth were two of the rare ones chosen instead for the demanding job ov First Contact. Their training was extensive, but all too soon the two Earth-humans were out on their own with all the amazing technology of the Federation at their command.
Martin knew that training was no substitute for experience. In First Contact, his first mistake would likely be his last.
The Escape Orbit
When the survivors of his starship were taken prisoner by the insect-creatures against whom Earth had fought a bitter war for nearly a century, Sector Marshal Warren expected to be impounded in a prison camp like those the EArthmen maintained. But the "Bugs" had a simpler method of dealing with prisoners–they dumped them on an uninhabited planet, without weapons or tools, and left them to fend for themsselves against the planet’s environment and strange monsters. A "Bug" spaceship orbited above, guarding them.
Escape was impossible, the "Bugs" told them–but it was absolutely necessary, for reasons Warren couldn’t tell even his own men.
The Silent Stars Go By
James White’s own favouritie James White novel. He got the catchy title from listening to ‘O, Little Town of Bethlehem’ at a carol concert* The parallel-universe Hibernian Empire has risen to supreme power, with the help of applied Old World technology (Hero’s steam engine, etc.) and new World natural resources (Brendan the navigator pre-empted Columbus by some five hundred years). Now the starship Aisling Gheal and its crew extend Oirish manifest destiny to outer space. Healer Nolan, an unbeliever in the priest-kings of Gor — sorry, Hibernia — finds himself pitted against the ultra-conservative Monsignor O’Riordan. I lapped it up. Mind you, I also think that Darby O’Gill and the Little People is a piece of grim documentary realism.
Underkill
It began in a hospital the incredible trail of clues which lead to the discovery of the invasion of the Earth.
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