Med Ship Man

The NASA Astronauts Space Station Evacuation - the first emergency crew return in a quarter century of ISS operations - put a sharp spotlight on what happens when a medical crisis strikes far from any hospital. Murray Leinster explored that same tension decades earlier in pulp science fiction form.

In Med Ship Man, a lone med ship doctor arrives at a silent, seemingly dead planet, his taped approach-call looping unanswered for the twentieth time. He's a last-minute replacement, thrust into ...