Alan E. Nourse Super Pack: A Positronic Book - Hardcover

by Alane E. Nourse (Author)

Alan E. Nourse was one of the strong science fiction voices of the later Golden Age, a writer whose stories combined adventure, medical imagination, social speculation, and sharp narrative drive. Alan E. Nourse Super Pack, the sixteenth volume in the Positronic Super Pack Series, brings together more than 700 pages of classic science fiction from an author whose work remains fast, intelligent, and engaging for modern readers. Nourse wrote with a clear eye for scientific possibility, ethical pressure, institutional failure, and the human consequences of discovery, making his fiction especially valuable to readers of Golden Age science fiction, medical science fiction, space adventure, and classic magazine-era SF.

Collected in this substantial omnibus edition are twenty-three Alan E. Nourse classics:

• Star Surgeon
• An Ounce of Cure
• Circus
• My Friend Bobby
• Consignment
• Second Sight
• Marley's Chain
• The Coffin Cure
• Letter of the Law
• Contamination Crew
• The Link
• Meeting of the Board
• Image of the Gods
• Peacemaker
• Derelict
• The Native Soil
• Brightside Crossing
• The Dark Door
• Infinite Intruder
• Bear Trap
• Martyr
• A Man Obsessed
• Gold in the Sky
• From strange cures and alien contact to space survival, institutional conflict, medical ethics, frontier danger, and the restless imagination of mid-century science fiction, this collection shows why Alan E. Nourse's work has continued to interest readers generation after generation. For fans of classic science fiction anthologies, Golden Age SF, vintage space fiction, and large single-author collections, Alan E. Nourse Super Pack offers an expansive introduction to one of the field's memorable storytellers. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.