Med Ship

This book was in the free bin at the library and I picked it up because I had read some of the stories in the book when they first appeared in magazines. As a teenager, I liked the puzzle solving but now, rereading these after nearly fifty years in some cases, I value the underlying perspectives abo......more

How many times can a med ship arrive on a planet, diagnose a plant-wide plague that should have been prevented by the previous med ship, come across hostile natives and suspicious neighboring worlds, find a cure to the plague and distribute the cure to all affected and improve planetary relations? Ap......more

I enjoyed the stories but it's a bit hard for me to read an entire anthology of one author. The individual stories are good but after a while it's hard to read the same thing over and over.......more

As an historical read, this comes close to essential--if only to see how far the genre has come both in writing competency and attitudes toward women. Holy cats, there were times... Nevertheless, the relationship between the Med Ship man Calhoun and his tormal Murgatroyd (the likeable member of the d......more

Enjoyable read. A nice collection of stories about a doctor and his adventures in space. I know others have commented that these seem dated, I thought they held up better than some of his other stories and it didn't detract from my enjoyment of them.......more