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The Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK™ series showcases great science fiction authors whose work might otherwise be forgotten. This time we focus on Alan E. Nourse, medical doctor and science fiction author, who paid his way through med school with his writing. He may be most famous as the author whose title was "borrowed" for the movie Bladerunner...though the movie was based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Nourse published just a handful of novels in a...

Billy Gimp was a bladerunner . . . one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day . . . and an underground physician by night, providing health care for the multitudes who could not - or would not - qualify for legal medical assistance.Trapped by Health Control Police, Billy Gimp knew he had to warn Doc that they were closing in on him...

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking physicians on all of Earth. Will his efforts be enough to earn him the Silver Star of a Star Surgeon?

Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return - sane! For years he has tried to transport - and receive - matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel Threshold. At first his efforts met only with failure and madness. But now The Thresholders have risen in fury. Somehow Bob Benedict must make one more trip into that land of peril and pacify them before they succeed in hurling his planet - piec...

Alan E. Norse was a leading science fiction author during the tail end of the Golden Age. His stories have stood the test of time and continue to entertain and enthrall generation after generation of readers. His thought provoking stories are just as pertinent today as they were in the Golden Age when he wrote them. Collected here in this omnibus edition are over 700 pages of wonderful fiction, including twenty three classics such as: 'Star Surgeon;' 'An Ounce of Cure;' 'Circus;' 'My Frien...

This fast-moving tale of the far future deals with the quest of the Hunter brothers for a mysterious bonanza located somewhere in the asteroid belt. The dangers and details of asteroid mining are carefully outline, and the bonanza itself proves to be and open gate to wider future in the stars.Realistic background, good plotting and vivid writing add up to a good adventure.

“We have watched your plants for millennia.”The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . .“Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness.”It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies...

A Sector General Novel. In the far future, humans are part of an intergalactic civilization populated with countless alien races. Humans are prized for their medical expertise and make up almost all of the doctors in the galaxy. Dal Timgar is the first non-human to attempt to become a qualified physician recognized by the Hospital Earth. But, before he reaches his goal he and his companions find a plague planet that may change the course of history.

The Dark Door by Alan E. Nourse.

The Coffin Cure by Alan E. Nourse.

Marley’s Chain is a 1952 science fiction short story by Alan E. Nourse.Tam's problem was simple. He lived in a world that belonged to someone else.A strange little story about a man back on Earth after eight years in "the rings."Looking for work, he can't find any. It seems he was a member of a losing side in a war, and there is prejudice against his kind.Marley’s Chain was first published in If Worlds of Science Fictio...

Explore a Venus that never was. This is Venus as science fiction imagined it, as it might have been. Explore the hot, humid, muddy planet and meet the aliens that populate it.