James White

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Full Series List in Order

My Dad

1 - My Dad: A Christmas Story (Dec-2011)
2 - My Dad: A Fish Tale (Sep-2011)
3 - My Dad: A Halloween Story (Oct-2011)

Sector General Novel

Hospital Station (1962)
Major Operation (May-1962)
Star Surgeon (Dec-1980)
Futures Past (Aug-1982)
Code Blue: Emergency (Jun-1987)
Final Diagnosis (Apr-1997)
The Galactic Gourmet (May-1997)
Mind Changer (1998)
Double Contact (Oct-1999)

Multi-Author Series List

Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict

2 - The First Protector (Mar-2000)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Hospital Station

    Sector General Novel

    SECTOR GENERAL Blazing like a gigantic, misshapen Christmas tree against a misty background of stars. Galactic Sector Twelve General Hospital provides environments and medical staff for the treatment of any known life form. But it's a big gala...

  • Major Operation

    Sector General Novel

    HOUSE CALL Star Surgeon Conway, Nurse Murchison, and the doctors of Sector General were used to big problems and wonderfully strange patients--yet even tentacled Chalders, elephantine Tralthans and the spidery empathy Dr. Prilicla were baffled. ...

  • Deadly Litter

    SPACE GARBAGE Common litter, trash--tossed from a speeding rocket, flash frozen in the void, whipped around the sun and hurtling in orbit--can prove as destructive as a guided missile, and less predictable. So destructive, in fact, that in crowded...

  • All Judgment Fled

    CLOSEST ENCOUNTER They had spotted the ship from Earth, and six astronauts were immediately dispatched to greet it. For five and a half months the men ate, slept, talked, and sweated within a few inches of each other, aware that any time any one o...

  • Lifeboat

    Disaster! The passengers were the usual varied lot, some nervous, some boisterous, some smart- aleck, some quiet. The ship's Medical Officer was brand new and didn't anticipate having to do much more than take care of a few queasy stomachs and ...

  • Monsters and Medics

    With MONSTERS AND MEDICS and spaceships so tall, From the pen of James White come five tales to enthrall. So come on a trip to the worlds of tomorrow, Feel the pleasure, the pain, and, sometimes, the sorrow. SECOND ENDING Alone on Earth! But n...

  • Ambulance Ship

    CALLING DR. CONWAY There was a lot of talk about the vital importance of his new assignment, but it still seemed like a demotion to Senior Physician Conway. After twelve years of outstanding service--and the most incredible experiences imaginable-...

  • Star Surgeon

    Sector General Novel

    Trying to solve the baffling medical problem of the comatose, immortal, and possibly homicidal demigod Levellin would have been trouble enough for Senior Physician Conway. But the episode triggered the gravest crisis in the history of Sector General....

  • The Aliens Among Us



  • Tomorrow Is Too Far

    Jim Carson was Security Chief at the Hart-Ewing plant--and he was very good at his job. That is, he accomplished what he had to unobtrusively. The nature of the job made Carson caution and meticulously thorough. What he brought to his profession was ...

  • The Dream Millennium

  • Futures Past

    Sector General Novel

    A CASE FOR SECTOR GENERAL The big birdlike creature, found floating in the vastness of space by the Scoutship Torrance, was obviously sick. A strange--and perhaps deadly--rash that covered its body may well have caused the creature's companions...

  • Sector General

  • The Escape Orbit

  • Star Healer

  • Code Blue: Emergency

    Sector General Novel

  • Federation World

    Inhabitants of newly discovered planets are invited to live in the exotic Federation World, or are chosen for First Contact, as are Martin and Beth, a deadly, dangerous job where a first mistake can also be the last...

  • Silent Stars Go by

    James White's own favouritie James White novel. He got the catchy title from listening to 'O, Little Town of Bethlehem' at a carol concert* The parallel-universe Hibernian Empire has risen to supreme power, with the help of applied Old World techno...

  • The Genocidal Healer

    In his zeal to cure the plague that has reduced the peaceful citizens of Cromsag to barbarism and war, Surgeon-Captain Lioren inadvertantly causes the death of the entire population and for punishment is banished to Sector Twelve General Hospital. Or...



  • White Papers

    Contains eight stories including the Hugo-nominated "Custom Fitting" and a new ghost story. In addition, ten pieces of the author's classic fan writing, and Gary Louie's timeline of Sector General and his guide to James White's physiological classifi...

  • Final Diagnosis

    Sector General Novel

    It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.

    But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurse...

  • The Galactic Gourmet

    Sector General Novel

    When the galaxy's greatest chef, Gurronsevas, travels to a massive hospital space station to make their hospital food more appetizing, he may have to overcome more than a few obstacles in order to meet this challenge. Reprint....

  • Mind Changer

    Sector General Novel

    It's where human and alien medicine meet: a massive hospital space station on the Galactic Rim, with 384 levels and a multispecies staff of thousands.In the course of practicing deep-space medicine, that staff has seen more than its share of challeng...

  • Double Contact

    Sector General Novel

    SECTOR GENERAL It's the massive hospital space station out on the Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. It's also "one of the few places in SF that one would really, really like to exist" (David Langford). Now, in the latest adventure, t...

  • The First Protector

    Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict - 2


    When he lands among the warring clans of the Irish hills, the Taelon scientist Ma'el is immediately cast into mortal danger...until he meets a young Celtic warrior who will lay down his life for the mysterious this stranger, and a druid priestess...

  • General Practice

    At Sector General, anything can happen-and frequently does. In this vast hospital in the depths of space, the thousands of staff, human and alien both, have a single mission: to care for all patients, of all species. For decades, these dramas of huma...

  • Bliss

    Youth and beauty are the color of blood. This youth, this beauty, has a name. That name is Bliss...When a compassionate psychiatrist tries to help a self-mutilating young woman, he discovers that some maladies exist beyond the realm of science, and t...

  • Project Ultra

    In 1947, just after the end of the second World War, the Central Intelligence Agency began a search for, and counter to, the then-perceived Soviet menace of psychic warfare. The belief was that the Soviets had gained strategic advantage over the U.S....

  • Whiteness

    Silvius trusted the wrong friends and stole from the wrong enemies. Now he's one step ahead and on the run in Germany, far from the Indonesian past he cannot escape. Haunted and hunted, what's a harried thief to do? Evolve. But Evolution takes it tol...



  • Once

    Ramon is a small-time gangster with a gat and a ton of 'tude when he meets a stranger who gives him the power to see the future of anyone he touches. Strange as that may seem, it's far less strange than who the man is, and why he gave that power in t...

  • Apeiron, Aziz

    A journalist trapped in a soul-destroying job. A mysterious code hidden in a series of newspaper articles. One damaged god seeking redemption. All collide in one fateful interview certain to change lives and alter the future in unimaginable ways. "Ap...

  • The Mutagenic Cycle and Other Stories

    Kick off your shoes and kick back with this six-pack of sci-fi cool, chock full of thugs, drugs, femme fatales, and cosmic secrets.THE MUTAGENIC CYCLEA thief discovers the drug he stole is more than merely mind-altering, and the designer from whom he...

  • My Dad: A Fish Tale

    My Dad - 2

  • My Dad: A Halloween Story

    My Dad - 3

  • My Dad: A Christmas Story

    My Dad - 1

  • The SECRET VISITORS

    There seemed to be three distinct groups of aliens now. First came the old men, harmless and fanatically uncommunicative, whose behavior had first aroused the department's suspicions. There was the group that had been responsible for the St. Armande ...

  • Something in the Dark

    Greedy, arrogant and fearless in his pursuit of gratification, Gerald Evans had few boundaries. But when he was careless with the money and wife of a major crime figure, consequences came in the form of underworld assassins. Although their first atte...

  • Alex Black

    Alex Black is a woman who works for the government. Her parents died when she was only 13 years old. Now, she has only her younger brother, Asher. Asher is a rebellious teenager, with a messy room, a leather jacket, and a taste for adventure. One day...

  • Borders in Paradise

    In Borders in Paradise, James White takes us first to depression-era Southern California, where we are quickly plunged into a setting of palm trees and wealth versus the trials and tribulations of a displaced Texas family. Next, it’s on to the ...



  • Prey Drive Wrath

    Eight years ago, Joseph Miles went in search of a cure for a disease he was convinced was turning him into a monster. The result was a killing spree that left a string of dismembered and cannibalized bodies from San Francisco to Seattle. After bei...

  • A Compendium Of The Veterinary Art

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • The Courtesan's Portrait

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    When a mysterious and alluring portrait is delivered to Parisian showgirl Pigalle, it signals the beginning of a deadly quest for the portrait’s secrets that will not only change her life, but possibly the balance of power in the world itself.I...

  • Watch Below

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    Two groups of people far from their own environments clash in this remarkable novel:

    Six humans survive a shipwreck, and find themselves in an airtight hold at the ocean's bottom. They have oxygen tanks, and stored food. They must survive in t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James White has published 43 books.

James White does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Prey Drive Wrath, was published in October 2019.

The first book by James White, Hospital Station, was published in January 1962.

Yes. James White has 2 series.
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