Second Ending (1962)
Deadly Litter (1964)
Escape Orbit (1965)
The Watch Below (1966)
All Judgement Fled (1968)
The Aliens Among Us (1969)
Tomorrow Is Too Far (1971)
Dark Inferno (1972)
The Dream Millennium (1974)
Monsters and Medics (1977)
Underkill (1979)
Future Past (1982)
Federation World (1988)
The Silent Stars Go By (1991)
Gene Roddenberry’s Earth:
Final Conflict—The First Protector (Tor, 2000)
THE SECTOR GENERAL SERIES
Hospital Station (1962)
Star Surgeon (1963)
Major Operation (1971)
Ambulance Ship (1979)
Sector General (1983)
Star Healer (1985)
Code Blue—Emergency (1987)
The Genocidal Healer (1992)
The Galactic Gourmet (Tor, 1996)
Final Diagnosis (Tor, 1997)
Double Contact (Tor, 1999)
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
BEGINNING OPERATIONS
Copyright © 2001 by the Estate of James White. This book is an omnibus edition comprising the novels Hospital Station, copyright © 1962 by James White, Star Surgeon, copyright © 1963 by James White, and Major Operation, copyright © 1971 by James White.
Introduction copyright © 2001 by Brian Stableford.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
An Orb Edition
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
eISBN 9781429982290
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
White, James.
Beginning operations / James White.—1st Orb ed. p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-312-87544-4
1. Science fiction, English. 2. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. 3. Life on other planets—Fiction. 4. Space medicine—Fiction. 5. Hospitals—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6073.H494 A6 2001
823’.914—dc21
2001027077