The James White Information Site

Accident

First published
1983
Words
11,500

Rellin complex was Nidia’s largest air terminal, its only spaceort, and, MacEwan thought cynically, its most popular zoo.

‘Accident’ probably wasn’t Jim’s version of those superhero ‘secret origin’ stories that mase Superman DC National Comics what they were thirty-five years ago – but that’s how I choose to see it. Grawlya –Ki and MacEwan, of ‘Tableau’ fame, have been revivified two centuries later. Since then, these “only two entities in the whole Federation with direct experience of war, had grown increasingly monomaniacal on the subject until the honour and rspect accorded them had gradually changed to reactions of impatience and embarrassment0.” Then a ground-transporter accident at the Nidia spaceport gives them the Big Idea that would mature into Sector Twelve General Hospital.

Synopsis by
Graham Andrews

In James White's books

Title Editor Type Year
Sector General, Del Rey / Ballantine, 1983 cover
Sector General Collection 1983
The White Papers, NESFA Press, 1996 cover
The White Papers Mark Olson, Bruce Pelz Collection 1996
Alien Emergencies, Orb, 2002 cover
Alien Emergencies Omnibus 2002
Publication notes

Sector General (Ballantine, March 1983) The White Papers

Data sources
James White Information (original site). Synopsis by Graham Andrews.
ISFDB title record (CC BY 4.0).