title: Sector General (collection)
text: # Sector General (collection)
  
  Sector General is a 1983 science fiction story collection by author James White and is part of the Sector General series. The book includes four stories.
  
  ## Stories
  
  * "Accident": A major accident at a multi-species spaceport inspires the two heroes who ended the human-Orligian war (MacEwan and Grawlya-Ki) to found Sector General.
  * "Survivor": A giant snail spacewreck survivor transmits pain and fear while unconscious.
  * "Investigation": A spacewreck scene seems to indicate amputations from each victim, causing ambulance commander Fletcher to suspect cannibalism.
  * "Combined Operation": The scene of a spacewreck contains hundreds of pods, which turn out to be a colony ship carrying the last survivors of an alien race.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Dave Langford reviewed Sector General for White Dwarf #95, and stated that "its foundling, and ever-intuitive Dr Conway struggles with three implausible new varieties of alien patient."
  
  ## Reviews
  
  * Review by Dan Chow (1983) in Locus, #266 March 1983
  * Review by Tom Easton (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Mid-September 1983
  * Review by Terry Broome (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #70
  