Sector General

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• wrp · May 14, 2023 · Recommends

  I can't get enough of good SF with interesting aliens, not because I'm such a voracious reader, but because there is so little of it. My suggestion for the list would be the Sector General series by James White. It's a bit like the TV series House but with alien patients. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General)

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• crooked-v · Nov 20, 2018 · Mentions

  I'm reminded of the Sector General series by James White, where in the first book he had wireless earbuds connected to a remote computer acting as real-time translators, but characters still had to go to a (video)phone on the wall to talk…

  on “The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed” ↗
• crooked-v · Sep 9, 2018 · Mentions

  Another example that's strangely funny in retrospect because of how far it is off the mark despite simultaneously predicting actual advances: the Sector General series (started in 1962, last book published 1999) starts out with universal translator earbuds that are remotely driven by a central computer system, but the characters have to go to a wall phone to…

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• crooked-v · Dec 24, 2018 · Mentions

  Though, I think it's worth noting when writers do move with the times. One example is the Sector General series, which was written over several decades real time starting in the 60s. If you read them in sequence, you can see where the author started with the assumption of 1960s social standards but then…

  on “Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013)” ↗