Murray Leinster 2 hr 36 min read

The Med Ship breaks out under strange stars, and Calhoun and the tormal Murgatroyd prepare to astonish the natives of a forbidden, quarantined world no one is allowed to visit.

Murray Leinster's 1961 novel is a rousing colonization space opera, a Med Service tale. Vivid, clever, engaging. Read it for a first-rate entry in Leinster's beloved series, Calhoun and Murgatroyd braving a plague-shunned taboo planet to unravel its deadly secret, in a fast-moving golden-age adventure of medicine, mystery, and interstellar problem-solving.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 36 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).