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Conklin, Groff (ed) - Great Science Fiction About Doctors / Конклин, Грофф (ред) - Лучшая НФ о докторах [1970, EPUB, ENG]

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Groff Conklin (ed) - Great Science Fiction About Doctors

Название: Great Science Fiction About Doctors / Лучшая НФ о докторах
Год выпуска: 1970
Под редакцией: Conklin, Groff / Конклин, Грофф
Издательство: Collier Books
ISBN: НЕТ
Формат: EPUB
Качество: OCR
Язык: английский

Описание:
Антология фантастики о медицине и медиках.
The Man Without an Appetite short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting... / Колыбель на орбите short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Brothers short story by Clifton Dance
The Great Keinplatz Experiment / Необычайный эксперимент в Кайнплатце short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Compound B novelette by David Harold Fink, M.D.
Rappaccini's Daughter / Дочь Рапачини novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Psychophonic Nurse short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
The Little Black Bag / Чёрный чемоданчик novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
Ribbon in the Sky / Ленточка на небосклоне novelette by Murray Leinster
Mate in Two Moves / Мат в два хода novelette by Winston K. Marks
Bedside Manner / Лечение novelette by William Morrison
The Shopdropper short story by Alan Nelson
Family Resemblance / Семейное сходство short story by Alan E. Nourse
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Правда о том, что случилось с мсье Вальдемаром short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Emergency Operation / Срочная операция short story by Arthur Porges
A Matter of Ethics short story by Clifton Dance (as by J. R. Shango)
Bolden's Pets / Зверушка Боулдена novelette by F. L. Wallace
Expedition Mercy novelette by Joseph A. Winter, M.D.
RIBBON IN THE SKY
Murray Leinster


I


“An error is a denial of reality, but mistakes are mere mental malfunctionings. In an emergency, a mistake may be made because of the need for precipitate action. There is no time to choose the best course: something must be done at once. Most mistakes, however, are made without any such exterior pressure. One accepts the first-imagined solution to a problem without examining it, either out of an urgent desire to avoid the labor of thinking, or out of impassioned reluctance to think about the matter at hand when prettier and more pleasurable other things can be contemplated…
The Practice of Thinking
Fitzgerald


It turned out afterward that somebody had punched the wrong button in a computer. It was in a matter in which mistakes are not permissible, but just as nothing can be manufactured without an ordinary hammer figuring somewhere in the making or the making-ready-to-make, so nothing can be done without a fallible human operating at some stage of the proceedings. And humans make mistakes casually, odd-handedly, with impartial lack of malice, and unpredictability.
So…
Calhoun heard the tape-speaker say, “When the gong sounds, breakout will follow in five seconds.” Then it made solemn I ticking noises while Calhoun yawned and put aside the book, “The Practice of Thinking,” that he’d been studying. Study was a necessity in his profession. Besides, it helped to pass the time in overdrive. He went to the control-desk chair and strapped in. Murgatroyd the formal uncoiled his tail from about his nose and stood up from where he was catching twenty winks. He padded to the place under Calhoun’s chair where there were things to grab hold of, if necessary, with four black paws and a prehensile tail.
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