Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Name the Book... Message-ID: <1297@orca.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 20:56:30 EST Article-I.D.: orca.1297 Posted: Sat Jan 12 20:56:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:12:36 EST References: <196@topaz.ARPA> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 21 [] "I read this when in Junior High, so i'm fuzzy on details. If anyone can identify the author/title/publisher etc. I would appreciate it ... The book is set in a far future Earth whose sole export to the rest of the (non-human) galaxy is its medical technology. The hero is the first non-human medical student sent to earth. The book covers his training, and some of his early career." The book is "Star Surgeon" by Alan Nourse. My copy was published by Scholastic Book Services, which means I bought it back in grade school. This is a great juvenile. It gently teaches that racial discrimination is bad by showing humans dumping on the first alien to enroll in an Earth medical school. This is also the book where I first encountered the concept of a colony of unicellular organisms with a single intelligence. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]