Meatball
Meatball
14000 words
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.
Synopsis by Graham Andrews |
| First Publication: |
- NEW WRITINGS N SF 16, Ed John Carnell, Dobson, January
1970
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| Publication history: |
- NEW WRITINGS IN SF 16, Corgi pb edition, March 1970
- Also in Major Operation (see under Books)
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