Mind Changer
A Sector General Novel
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4.9 • 8 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
A massive hospital space station on the Galactic Rim faces an unsettling change in leadership that could jeopardize its future.
Mind Changer takes place at Sector General, a sprawling hospital space station with 384 levels and a multispecies staff of thousands. In the course of practicing deep-space medicine, the staff has encountered challenges ranging from plagues caused by cafeteria food to cafeteria food resembling alien species. But now they face a disquieting development: the terrifying Chief Psychologist, Dr. O'Mara, has been promoted to head of the hospital.
Worse, he's been given the job on a temporary basis, just long enough to train his own replacement before mandatory retirement. The staff at Sector General can't begin to imagine what they'll do without him—assuming they last long enough to find out.
Publishers Weekly praises Mind Changer as "White's finest performance, replete with wit, originality, medical expertise and sheer decency." This science fiction novel combines extraterrestrial races, alien technology, and medical science fiction in a gripping tale set in a unique hospital at the edge of the galaxy. It's a must-read for fans of alien science fiction and the acclaimed Sector General series.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The latest novel in White's long-running and justly popular Sector General series (Final Diagnosis, etc.)--about a far future, multispecies, interstellar hospital--features an unlikely protagonist. He is Dr. O'Mara, the formidable and ferocious Chief Psychologist of Sector General, newly appointed head of the hospital until he can choose and train his successor. As O'Mara embarks on that quest, his 30-year career at Sector General unfolds through a series of flashbacks, which also reveal a great deal about the early careers of some of the other ongoing characters in the series. Also depicted is the early progress with the Educator tapes that have allowed interspecies surgery through mental imprinting--one of White's more original, durable and admirable concepts. Through O'Mara's entire career runs his bond with Marrasarah, the Kelgian female surgeon whose Educator tape O'Mara used first, and for whom he developed therapies that helped her and other Kelgians severely disfigured by damage to their fur to lead sane and productive lives. The proliferation of flashbacks may occasionally confuse readers, but otherwise this is White's finest performance, replete with wit, originality, medical expertise and sheer decency. The Sector General saga is now in its 10th novel and 36th year, but it shows few signs of aging.
