Conway had been worrying about the Meatball problem during the whole of the trip back to the hospital, but only in the past two hours had the process become a constructive one.
There is no truth to the rumour, which I’ve just started, that Jim named ‘Meatball’ after a song made briefly famous by Burl Ives. “We are carrying two Drambon natives. Drambo is the native name for the planet . . .” Conway tells Sector General Reception. “One of the natives is a CLHG, water-breathing, with a warm-blooded oxygen-based metabolism. The other is tentatively classified a SRJH and seems comfortable in either air r water.” The Drambon SRJH physician/leucocyte treats a blood-poisoned Kelgian in its own inimitable, but effective fashion.
In anthologies
| Title | Editor | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
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New Writings in SF 16 | John Carnell | 1970 |
In James White's books
| Title | Type | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Major Operation | Fix-up novel | 1971 |
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Beginning Operations | Omnibus | 2001 |
NEW WRITINGS N SF 16, Ed John Carnell, Dobson, January 1970 NEW WRITINGS IN SF 16, Corgi pb edition, March 1970 Also in Major Operation
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