A question for the hive mind

Jan 17, 2016 21:30

Can anyone point me towards any good medical science fiction?

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brixtonbrood January 17 2016, 21:42:43 UTC
James White is the traditional answer but I haven't read his stuff.

Blood Music and The Child Garden might be of interest.

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flick January 17 2016, 21:50:17 UTC
James White!

Um. There must be others. Um.

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coth January 17 2016, 22:03:42 UTC

Blumlein Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration. maybe others as Blumlein is a doctor of medicine. Alan Nourse Medic. Kuttner The Little Black Bag.

Perhaps a bit peripheral: Harry Turtledove invented vaccination in one of his Byzantium books. John Varley's Steel Beach (i think) turns on the death of an infant. Anthony's Prostho Plus stars a dentist.

Have you tried a key word search on the SF Encyclopedia?

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rmc28 January 17 2016, 22:38:10 UTC
Elizabeth Moon has a space-paramedics short story in the Phases collection: "ABCs in Zero G". I remember liking it; I haven't reread it to see if I still think it's good, sorry.

Bujold's Ethan of Athos and Falling Free both have strong themes of reproductive medicine and related genetic manipulation. There's a fair bit of medicine as background / secondary detail throughout most of her work, now I come to think of it. The 3rd & 4th of the Sharing Knife series have "major character learning medicine" as a major plot thread.

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autopope January 17 2016, 23:11:40 UTC
"The Godwhale" by T. J. Bass springs to mind (I believe there's an SF Masterworks edition out -- Gollancz yellowjacket).

(Trying to think of others is hard; it's not a field that got much traction in the old days.)

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