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...

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?

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.

A Man Obsessed is a science fiction novel by American author Alan E. Nourse first published in 1955.HE HUNTED HORROR THROUGH A MANIAC WORLD!Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his own all-consuming obsession—Paul Conroe must die!After a fi...

Tam returns home to Earth after years of working in space. But Tam is a Sharkie, and on Earth Sharkies need not apply. Refused service in restaurants and other establishments, and unable to find employment, he takes the only desperate measure he can to survive.

The Native Soil is a science fiction short story by American author Alan E. Nourse, first published in 1957.A drug company troubleshooter is sent to Venus to increase production from the antibiotic mining project.The world's entire surface is mud and the native semi-intelligent mudpups have a knack for doing the wrong thing at exactly the right time.Alan Edward Nourse (1928-1992) was an American science fiction author and physician....

The Dark Door by Alan E. Nourse.

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.

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...

My Friend Bobby by Alan E. Nourse.

It was a proud day when Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin announced that he had discovered a cure for the common cold. But in the end, would the cure be worse than the affliction?

The Coffin Cure by Alan E. Nourse.