![]() ![]() ![]() 1976 A traditional tailor gets the commission of his life when the new ambassador arrives House Sitter. 1983 (Sector General) MacEwan and Grawlya-Ki are frustrated in their attempts to bring the Federation together. 1960 (Sector General) Conway gets his first permanent Educator tape, and falls in love with a crablike Melfian. 1959 (Sector General) A melting SRTT and its panicked infant cause chaos. ![]() 1960 (Sector General) During the building of Sector General, despised construction worker O'Mara is forced to baby-sit a one-ton orphaned Hudlarian infant. 1972 Why is the polite young man so interested in the old lady? Medic. General and the classification system are detailed and useful. You know the people involved, it would be riveting. I found the fan writing, mostly about early SFĬonventions, less interesting. He's best know for his Sector General stories, the others here demonstrate ![]() Other collections, but some of it I read here for the first time. The short fiction is great - most of it I've seen in (In The White Papers )Ī collection of some of James White's best short fiction, and of hisĮarly fan-writing. ![]()
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Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. ![]() |