Med Ship

By: Murray Leinster

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Who Ya Gonna Call

Med Service!

Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Others have diseases brought to them accidentally - or on purpose - by visiting ships. When millions of lives are threatened, it's a job for the Interstellar Medical Service, and a Med Ship is sent to solve the problem.

Calhoun is the best the Med Service has, and hard experience has taught him that often the major obstacle to curing the sick is...the sick. And removing that kind of obstacle may take very strong medicine. To find a cure for a disease, Calhoun has the help of his small animal companion Murgatroyd, a formal - a species with the most powerful immune system in the galaxy. But to find a cure for hysteria, prejudice, crime, and even war is much more complicated, requiring considerable ingenuity. Fortunately, ingenuity is something that Calhoun has in good supply....

©2013 Murray Leinster (P)2020 Recorded Books

Juvenile fiction

This is a book for pre teen or early teen kids. These need a rating so they are not purchased by adults.

Awful Narrator

I was thrilled to see an audiobook version of one of my childhood favorites. Unfortunately, the narrator totally ruined it. He has no sense of rhythm. His cadance is off and he reads suspenseful passages as though they were a commercial. Extremely disappointing.

Dr. Calhoun to the rescue!

Classic Space Opera, the Med Ship series of stories is an old favorite and it was great to find them all collected under one cover. Because they were written as separate novels at the time of publication the first few pages of each review the basics of the Med Ship Universe so first time readers who had not necessarily read any of the other installments understand who the lead characters are and what there motivations are. When reading them in rapid sequence the repetition of the basic facts can be mildly offputting, but that is an artifact of how they were originally published, not a failing of the stories or the author.

Calhoun is the perpetual young Doctor, a few years past residency and expert in diplomatic skills needed to pass on knew medical insights to the planets he visits without offending the governments or medical establishments too much. At least that is the theory, but these are adventure stories so in each case something has gone terribly wrong, often due to greed or corruption, and he must find a way to fix it to promote the health of the people he encounters. Each of the included novels has a unique mystery to be solved complete with its own solutions and maneuverings.

The Audible version is a fun listen and brings the adventures to life in a different way than my minds eye.

good book

I enjoyed this book, it kept me interested and wanting more. it's been months and nothing more to read about med ship... I hope you know I am rolling my eyes to the fact it's going to take for ever for another med ship book 2 and it needs to be longer thank you

Collection of 1960s Space Stories!

As a big Murray Leinster fan I’m so glad they made a audiobook version of all his Med Ship Man stories. While some of the future technology described in the book is already obsolete they are a great read. Most of these stories were written in the 1960s and the author passed away in 1975.