James White (April 7 1928 - August 23, 1999) was a prolific Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels.

He is probably best-known as the author of the Hospital Station (more properly known as Sector General) series of novels. The first novels were assembled from strung-together short stories, but later Sector General adventures were full-length books. The first Sector General novel was published in 1962, and the last was published posthumously in 1999. This series is considered to be one of the first space operas.

His book "The Watch Below" is considered by many afficianados to be his finest work - a claustrophobic book describing the travails of parallel survivors of war (human) and accident (alien).

Published works

Sector General

• Hospital Station (1962: collection of stories from New Worlds science fiction ca. 1958-1961)
• Star Surgeon (1963)
• Major Operation (1971)
• Ambulance Ship (1979)
• Sector General (1983)
• Star Healer (1985)
• Code Blue - Emergency (1987)
• The Genocidal Healer (1992)
• The Galactic Gourmet (1996)
• Final Diagnosis (1997)
• Mind Changer (1998)
• Double Contact (1999)

Other:

• The Secret Visitor (1957)
• Second Ending (1962)
• Deadly Litter (1964)
• The Watch Below (1966)
• All Judgement Fled (1968)
• The Aliens Among Us (1969)
• Tomorrow is Too Far (1971)
• Dark Inferno (1972)
• The Dream Millennium (1974)
• Monsters and Medics (1977)
• Underkill (1979)
• Future Past (1982)
• Federation World (1988)
• The Silent Stars Go By (1991)
• The White Papers (1996)

External links

• Official home page
• Bibliography on SciFan