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Final Diagnosis (Mass Market Paperback)

by James White (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st Mass Market Ed edition (Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812562682
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812562682
  • Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 659,196 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Wonderful....Suspenseful, imaginative, and humanistic, with a wry humor. Highly recommended."--"Starlog"
"Marvelously entertaining, and the clever medical mystery that underlies everything is nicely done as well. One of the best entries in this popular and inventive series."--"Science Fiction Chronicle"


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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This sci-fi book was a find which surprised and intrigued me, 23 May 1999
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I have not read the rest of James White's Sector General series but I now eagerly anticipate reading them. The humor and mystery of the book were only equalled by White's talent for describing enthralling alien characters. He paints a picture of the future with a different slant than any I have read thus far, an uplifting look at human/life ironies told from a sympathetic point of view, like a Norman Rockwell doctor who routinely treats nitrogen-breathing slime creatures from a planet with five times our gravity!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm glad this wasn't the last book in the series after all, 1 April 1999
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*Final Diagnosis* refers back to *Star Surgeon*, which pleased me because that the first Sector General book I ever read [in 1967 or 1968, when paperbacks were only 50 cents]. If you've read that earlier book you'll enjoy reading how things turned out, and you should enjoy the book even if you haven't. Although, as another reviewer mentioned, it's easy to figure out most of what's going on (once Hewlitt remembers his kitten's accident, the incident with Morredeth is inevitable, etc.), that doesn't matter much. Never mind the "mystery", the book is worth reading for the characters alone. I only wish, for new readers' sake, that series remained in print as long now as they did when I was a girl. The internet makes it easier to find out-of-print books than it used to be, but that's no substitute for being able to order all the earlier books from the publisher. Ann E. Nichols
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5.0 out of 5 stars White is still the best at this style scifi!, 24 Jan 1999
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As a long time reader of White's Sector General novels i was definitly not disappointed with his newest. I really enjoyed Patient Hewlett's attempts to get over his xenophobia. No one writes aliens like White. You really want to meet these creatures by the end of his books. His plots are always wonderfully off kilter. It is good old fashioned science fiction in the best sense of the word. You can read them out of order but to get the full effect try to find the earlier books as well.
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