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dustydigger
Posted 2021-01-24 4:57 AM (#22864 - in reply to #22775)
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Location: UK		I really enjoyed Alan E Nourse's Star Surgeon about a young alien who desires to be a surgeon in a pangalactic set up where almost all doctors are humans,and Earth has become a giant hospital treating sick aliens from across the galaxy..This juvenile series predates James White's Sector General series by several years.Not sure if White was ffamiliar with the series.there are definitely similarities. And White even called the second book Star Surgeon in 1963!
Poor old Nourse,he never wins.The Sector General books became famous instead of his books,and then the makers of Blade Runner wanted the title without any copyright issues,so they bought up the rights to the book,discarded the whole book,which had no similarities whatsoever to the film!

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