Alan Edward Nourse 3 hr 15 min read

Dal Timgar, the first alien admitted to the Black Service of Pathology, dreams of becoming a Star Surgeon, if Earth's prejudice and a deadly crisis don't stop him first.

Alan E. Nourse's 1960 novel is a warm, thoughtful colonization space opera of interstellar medicine. Humane, engaging golden-age SF (Nourse was himself a physician). Read it for a fine juvenile of a gifted alien student fighting bigotry to earn his place among the galaxy's healers.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 15 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).