Book Title: Great science fiction by scientists
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Collier books
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12,Young Adults,Adults
Publication Year: 1962
Type: Short Stories
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: Groff Conklin
Genre: Science Fiction
Topic: Doctors
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Great science fiction by Scientists & about doctors edited by Groff Conklin 1962
Great science fiction by Scientists
What If · Isaac Asimov
The Ultimate Catalyst · Eric Temple Bell
The Gostak and the Doshes · Miles J. Breuer
Summertime on Icarus · Arthur C. Clarke
The Neutrino Bomb · Ralph S. Cooper
Last Year's Grave Undug · Chan Davis
The Gold Makers · J. B. S. Haldane
The Tissue Culture King · Julian Huxley
A Martian Adventure · Willy Ley
Learning Theory · James McConnell
The Mother of Necessity · Chad Oliver
John Sze's Future · John R. Pierce
Kid Anderson · Robert S. Richardson
Pilot Lights of the Apocalypse · Dr Louis N. Ridenour
Grand Central Terminal · Leo Szilard
The Brain · Norbert Wiener
Great science fiction about doctors
When the medical mind takes off on a flight of fancy (or fantasy), watch out! The results, as these eighteen tales show, can be chillingly plausible or tantalizingly irrational. Represented in this anthology are a number of practicing physicians -- including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (M.D.!) -- as well as such well-known science fictioneers as Arthur C. Clarke, C.M. Kornbluth, and Murray Leinster, and such classical writers as Poe and Hawthorne. Some of the stories ("The Man Without an Appetite" and "Family Resemblance") are lighthearted. Some ("The Little Black Bag" and "A Matter of Ethics") are biting. Some ("Rappacini's Daughter" and "The Brothers") are ghoulish. All are compelling, and all project a sometimes titillating, sometimes macabre, but always incisive view of the far-out worlds of medicine. The editors prescribe this collection for the fun of it: to relax tensions and expand the imagination. But if you come across some provacative, serious ideas, don't be startled -- science fiction is full of such intriguing surprises.
CONTENTS:
The Man Without an Appetite by Miles J. Breuer
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting by Arthur C. Clarke
The Brothers by Clifton Dance, Jr.
The Great Keinpatz Experiment by Arthur Conan Doyle
Compound B by David Harold Fink
Rappacini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Psychophonic Nurse by David H. Keller
The Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth
Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster
Mate in Two Moves by Winston K. Marks
Bedside Manner by William Morrison
The Shopdropper by Alan Nelson
Family Resemblance by Alan E. Nourse
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
Emergency Operation by Arthuer Porges
A Matter of Ethics by J.R. Shango
Bolden's Pets by F.L. Wallace
Expedition Mercy by J.A. Winter
