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1. The Works of Alan E. Nourse (14
 
2. The Bladerunner
3. Gold in the Sky by Alan E. Nourse
4. Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse
5. Rocket To Limbo
 
6. Raiders From the Rings
7. An Ounce of Cure
 
8. Rx FOR TOMORROW: TALES OF SCIENCE
 
9. Rx for tomorrow
 
10. Safe Sex (Teen Guides)
 
11. Teen Guide to Safe Sex
 
12. AIDS Prevention (Teen Guides)
 
13. The mercy men
 
14. Birth Control (Teen Guides)
 
15. Your Immune System (First Books)
 
16. Tiger by the tail
 
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17. Survival (Teen guides)
 
18. A Man Obsessed | the Last Planet
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19. Star Surgeon
 
20. Trouble On Titan

1. The Works of Alan E. Nourse (14 books)
by Alan E. Nourse
Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-05-27)
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Circus
The Coffin Cure
The Dark Door
Gold in the Sky
Image of the Gods
Letter of the Law
The Link
Meeting of the Board
My Friend Bobby
The Native Soil
An Ounce of Cure
PRoblem
Second Sight
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2. The Bladerunner
by Alan E. Nourse
 Paperback: 213 Pages (1975)
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Isbn: 0345246543
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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In 2014 seventeen-year-old Billy Gimp risks great danger as a procurer of illegal medical supplies for a skilled surgeon determined to provide health care for people considered unqualified for legal medical aid. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Excellent.Deserves to be in print.
Nourse's Blade Runner deserves to be in print.
This is a fantastice novel that is a lot more interesting and thought-provoking that the limp movie of the same title. It's a travesty that Ridley Scott was somehow able to use Blade Runner as the title for his movie.

In 1974, Nourse predicts a future consisting of robot surgeries, computer courts, and health care system implementing sterilization.Many of these visions of the future have come to fruition (see China's family planning policy).Of course, the rage these days is robot-assisted prostate surgery.Who knows what the future will bring?

What would Nourse have said about Twitter?

5-0 out of 5 stars The Bladerunner
A fine, masterful work by the late Dr. Alan Edward Nourse (originator of the title of the Ridley Scott film), which shows a New York, not too far in the future, afflicted by an Asian flu which, coupled with meningitis-like symptoms, could lead to a full scale, deadly epidemic with no geographic boundaries.

When governmnet-sponsored healthcare, accessible only to those who submit to voulntary sterilization, threatens to leave the poor, or unwilling in the lurch, doctors (such as John Long, M.D.) will perform inexpensive surgeries under the table until such time as the patients can afford to pay for better medical care.

In the service of these doctors are registered nurses (like Molly Barret), anestheticians (when one is available) and, out of vital necessity, courier/smugglers of illegally-acquired medical supplies: bladerunners (for instance, Billy Gimp; not his real name); so-called because of the scalpels (blades) among other supplies they carry.

Billy is under surveillance for various illegal activities; he's also the only person who can elicit support for Doc, when the chips are down. In his corner is Molly, who takes Doc to task for continually promising to fix Billy's club foot problem (hence Billy's nickname).

With the cops closing in on Billy in the Lower City section of Manhattan, it's only a matter of time before Billy's various contacts (Doc, Molly in the Upper City, suppliers and other bladerunners) get pulled into the net the police have thrown over the region.

Expertly written by a former M.D., The Bladerunner conjures up images of American cities we all know, with a sort of multi-level, stacked metropolis image (Seattle, my hometown, in some parts; L.A., downtown; and Chicago, in such films as Batman Begins, and Dark Knight), and the current healthcare crisis, with its Asian flu epidemic, and robot-assisted surgery (against which Doc fights, out of contempt for soulless machines) a reality, this book, penned in 1974, is more prophetic in reality, than the movie which bought its title. Find a copy and settle in for a long night in a future all too present.

4-0 out of 5 stars Interesting 'proto-cyberpunk' medical SF adventure
Alan E. Nourse (1928 - 1992) was a physician and the author of a sizeable (and well-written) collection of SF short stories and novels, most of which were aimed at juveniles (the term `Young Adult' wasn't really in use in the 1950s). I remember his short story collection `The Counterfeit Man' as one of the perennial SF titles offered to kids as part of the Scholastic (paperback) Book Club purchasing program present in many elementary and junior high schools in the Baby Boomer era.

`The Bladerunner' (1974, ages 12 to adult) has a confusing history with regard to its title. A screenplay based on Nourse's novel and written by William Burroughs failed to attract attention from the major studios when shopped in the mid 70's; subsequently the screenplay was adapted to a novelette and published in 1979 as `Blade Runner: A Movie'. From what I remember from reading this truncated version, it too-clearly reflected Burroughs's fixation with pederasty, and even the more `progressive' studio execs probably felt uncomfortable with the thought of catering to the fantasies of a filthy old pervert, however great his standing in the literary world.

I've no idea if Warner Bros. paid any sort of licensing fee to Nourse or Ballantine / Del Rey for using the title for its 1982 film adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?'.If not, they certainly should have, because `The Bladerunner' is a good novel in its own right despite having the misfortune to share a title with one of the most influential SF films of the past 50 years.

`Bladerunner' is set in approximately 2015, after the 1994 `Health Riots' marked the economic collapse of the American health care system. Anyone seeking treatment in any medical facility may find themselves subject to sterilization under Eugenics Laws designed to reduce the incidence of disease in the population. Unsurprisingly, many elect to have their medical needs met at home using a clandestine system of care performed by idealistic MDs who disagree with the System. `Bladerunner' refers to those young men who serve as couriers for contraband drugs and surgical supplies between patients and the doctors, most of whom have entirely legitimate practices in hospitals and clinics in the wealthier sections of the city.

Billy Gimp is one such Bladerunner, working for surgeon `Doc' John Long and his able nurse Molly. The trio sets out several times a week to lower-income neighborhoods of New York and its surrounding environs to conduct kitchen-table tonsillectomies and other surgical procedures. Billy and his companions must be watchful for surveillance by the Big Brother-ish Health Control police, since a conviction for providing black market health care can result in imprisonment for Billy, and the loss of a license for Doc.

When Billy does find himself under surveillance,he quickly learns that it is not unique to his own bladerunning operation, but rather, has expanded to the entire underground medicine infrastructure. Does the increased scrutiny by the authorities have anything to do with the `Shanghai Flu' ? Could the Flu be the start of an epidemic of a new and lethal disease, and his clients in the black market the medical equivalent of canaries in a coal mine ? Can the authorities set aside their ideology to ally with the bladerunners, and stop a catastrophe from snuffing out half of the population of the United States ?

In my opinion `The Bladerunner' is a very readable example of proto-cyberpunk SF. It shares with the genre the near-future setting, the psychological backdrop of paranoia and alienation from `conventional' society, an urban megalopolis subject to pervasive government oversight, and a sense of the `street finding its own use for things'.

Billy Gimp is a prototypical cyberpunk `hero', with his club foot, trashed apartment, and contempt for authority sharpened by a life of deprivation in the grimy alleys of the Lower City. The novel lacks the emphasis on sex, (illegal) drugs, and rock n' roll found in the cyberpunk Canon (this is a novel intended for young adults and older readers, after all), but it serves as a kind of predecessor to Neuromancer, still a decade away from hitting the shelves.

And... I guess it's just coincidence that there's a Molly in Bladerunner and a Molly in Neuromancer ? ....hmmm...

5-0 out of 5 stars Obscure, out of print, hard to find. And that's just the author and his work.This should have been the original "Bladerunner"
The novel The Bladerunner (also published as The Blade Runner) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse.

The novel's protagonist is Billy Gimp, a man with a club foot who runs "blades" for Doc (Doctor John Long) as part of an illegal black market for medical services. The setting is a society where free, comprehensive medical treatment is available for anyone so long as they qualify for treatment under the Eugenics Laws. Preconditions for medical care include sterilization, and no legitimate medical care is available for anyone who does not qualify or does not wish to undergo the sterilization procedure (including children over the age of five). These conditions have created illegal medical services in which bladerunners supply black-market medical supplies for underground practitioners, who generally go out at night to see patients and perform surgery.

Connection to the film Blade Runner:

The book is a version of a common science-fiction plot, which suggested the title of the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner (which was otherwise unrelated beyond the common element of dystopian futures). Both of the earlier works use the term "bladerunner" to describe black-market suppliers of items needed for medical care.

In 1979 William S. Burroughs was commissioned to write a story treatment for a possible film adaptation. This treatment was published as the novella Blade Runner (a movie). Burroughs acknowledged the Nourse novel as a source, and prominently set a mutated virus and right-wing politics in the year 1999.

No film was produced from it, but Hampton Fancher, a screenwriter for the 1982 film (based on science fiction author Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), had a copy, and it suggested the title Blade Runner as one more tantalizing than the successive earlier working titles, "Android" and "Dangerous Days". Within the film, the phrase appears as an informal term for the personnel of the police "Rep-Detect" division.

Ridley Scott bought any rights to the title "Blade Runner" that might have arisen from either the Nourse novel or the Burroughs story treatment. ... Read more


3. Gold in the Sky by Alan E. Nourse (Halcyon Classics)
by Alan E. Nourse
Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-08-31)
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This Halcyon Classics ebook is GOLD IN THE SKY by Alan E. Nourse.Nourse (1928-1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics.His most well-known work by title is THE BLADERUNNER, which lent its title to the film adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's work DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1964 novel FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD to Nourse.

Greg Hunter. Test pilot--happy only when his life hung in the balance. Tom Hunter. A pioneer--his frontier was hidden in test tubes. Johnny Coombs. A prospector--he returned from the asteroids too soon. Merrill Tawney. An industrialist--he sought plunder even beyond the stars. Major Briarton. A government man--his creed was law and order.
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4. Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse (Halcyon Classics)
by Alan E. Nourse
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Asin: B0041KKSFM
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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This Halcyon Classics ebook is STAR SURGEON by Alan E. Nourse.Nourse (1928-1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics.His most well-known work by title is THE BLADERUNNER, which lent its title to the film adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's work DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1964 novel FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD to Nourse.

Born on a planet of a distant star, Dal Timgar is the first alien to attempt to become a qualified physician of Hospital Earth.
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5-0 out of 5 stars It was VERY Good!
The Book itself was great!It was somewhat like James White's Sector General Books.In a way.And yet the perspective ... written by an outsider, a non-human ... was quite enjoyable.I couldn't believe I found a good (worthy of a "G Rating" Book from the past that I hadn't even read yet!And I read a number of Books by Alan Nourse when I was growing up!!!The Kendle Version read great.Just wish I was better able to add intelligent comments.But it's hard to do when you devour the Book from page one to end without having to use the Index or any other Features. ... Read more


5. Rocket To Limbo
by Alan E. Nourse
Paperback: 192 Pages (1986-10-01)
list price: US$2.95
Isbn: 0441733395
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Imaginative teen sf
Not your typical young adult s-f book.

It starts out in a familiar way - a young man, trained in the biological sciences at the Colonial Services Academy, is assigned to his first exploration ship. He (Lars) is excited because the captain is his personal hero, famous for finding new planets to which earth's booming population can migrate; and for bringing his crews home, despite dangerous conditions on those new planets. Lars' cabin-mate is a jerk he knew from the academy. This is where typical ends and totally unexpected begins.

Every turn and twist from here on out is unanticipated and fresh. Adventure, yes, but also a call to look within - very good story.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Gem
It's really unfortunate that almost all of Alan Nourse's books are out of print.

Rocket to Limbo is a real joy to read.As usual, Nourse's dialogues are crisp and the plot is fast-paced and intriguing.And the moral of the story is worth pondering long after you have finished the book.

The story: search for a lost space explorer vessel in planet Wolf IV, located far far away, leads to a shocking discovery. ... Read more


6. Raiders From the Rings
by Alan E Nourse
 Paperback: Pages (1965-01-01)

Asin: B001S805BW
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Alan E Nourse Juvenile Sci Fi
I first read this epic little Cold War Era novel by Alan E Nourse in the early sixties, from the junior high library. In it, nuclear global annihilation is averted when the space forces of all the great powers refuse to take part, joining with one another instead. Their reward is exile, and the unending hatred of their homeworld. Over the next few hundred years, they have built their own unique culture, whose focal point is the Maukis, the Spacer women whose beautiful singing tells the story of lonliness and exile. The novel concerns the final war between Spacers and Earthborn, which will end in either reconciliation, or the total extermination of both halves of the human race. The favorite sci-fi novel of my youth, I had not seen a copy for over 4o years, when the well preserved vintage paperback arrived, and immediately took me back through the years. It was every bit as good as I had remembered!

5-0 out of 5 stars A gem of a read
I read this as a kid and loved it. It was my one of my two favorites. The other was Ben Bova's Star Conquerors. The asteroid miners and Martians raid Earth for supplies. Now Earth has sent a clumsy battle fleet to crush them. The asteroid miners have cool tanglers that web their enemies, and each side's spacecraft uses missiles instead of laser beams or photon torpedoes. This is an old gem. Read and enjoy.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Simple Classic
I read this novel young, and even after I'd forgotten the author and title it stayed with me, until a chance encounter in a used bookstore brought it back into my life. Raiders From the Rings is an allegory about the Cold War, and the danger of mutual assured destruction. As a physician, Alan Nourse is asking a question that was relevant then and which is still with us today: will humanity give in to its darker side, its desire for revenge and violence, and thereby destroy itself? Or will our better selves prevail?

It still surprises me that Raiders From the Rings doesn't get more attention in the world of Science Fiction, since in this book Nourse takes a dramatic risk that few Science Fiction authors of his day (or today) were willing to take, presenting his audience with an unsolvable moral challenge and forcing them to wrestle with it. I refer, of course, to the question of the Mauki, those women abducted from Earth to be mothers for the exiled human Spacers (cosmic radiation has eliminated the Spacers' ability to father female children). So what for the Spacers is a survival necessity is for their earthbound enemies the worst of nightmares: the abduction of their daughters. This raises the dramatic stakes and makes it easy for the reader to join in the desire for violence that is the theme of the book, even if that violence destroys humanity. The story, of course, is the struggle with this very question.

The book is dated, particularly in its treatment of gender roles, which clearly predate the feminism of the late 1960's and afterward. And it is a pity that Nourse never explored the Mauki further. But the central theme of the book is timeless: when we meet our enemies and see that they are not so different from ourselves, can we really still hate them and remain human?

4-0 out of 5 stars Above Average Space Opera
I read this book when I was in my mid-teens and recently ran across it in my local public library.Nourse was a practicing physician who became a professional writer and produced several science fiction novels.Some of his books had medical themes.The title of one of his books, The Blade Runner, inspired the title of the well known Ridley Scott/Harrison Ford movie, though the plot is derived from a work by the loony Philip Dick.Raiders from the Rings is a space opera about a long-running war between humans on Earth and a satellite civilization in the remainder of the solar system.Decently written and plotted, it has many of the elements common to space operas; threats to human civilization, romance, alien interlopers to the solar system, etc.Nourse is able, however, to use these standard elements in a relatively creative way and do something novel with the genre.This book, unlike most of its contemporaries, is still surprisingly readable.In the last few years, a number of small publishing houses have brought out largely forgotten but still readable science fiction novels.Perhaps its time to revive some of Nourse's books. ... Read more


7. An Ounce of Cure
by Alan E. Nourse Nourse
Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-08-03)
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An Ounce of Cure appeared in Imaginative Tales, 1955

An Ounce of Cure is for anyone who hates to visit the doctor. It is a short, absurdist satirical piece on Nourse’s own medical profession.
A middle-aged man goes to his doctor seeking treatment of his foot pain, but instead becomes trapped in a maelstrom of arcane diagnostic procedures and endless referrals to increasingly ridiculous specialists. ... Read more


8. Rx FOR TOMORROW: TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND MEDICINE
by Alan E., Editor Nourse
 Hardcover: Pages (1973-01-01)

Asin: B000JWE7XU
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars 11 Short Stories....
RX for Tomorrow by Alan Nourse
Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Medicine
An ominous future world in which a man's body can be built completely anew, providing him with a second full lifetime to live, but releasing him as a frightened "Free Agent" into a society which has become totally incomprehensible to him...
A fantastic world in which all medical discovery came to a halt in the 1600's and modern doctors fight disease with the aid fo a strange pact with a Demon in the Underworld...
A nightmare world where machines diagnose and treat you...
11 Short Stories..
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9. Rx for tomorrow
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: 224 Pages (1972)

Isbn: 0571099831
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10. Safe Sex (Teen Guides)
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: 64 Pages (1988-09)

Isbn: 0863137903
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11. Teen Guide to Safe Sex
by Alan E. Nourse
 Paperback: Pages (1990-10)
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Isbn: 0531152111
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Discusses sexually transmitted diseases, including gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, genital herpes, and AIDS, and how to protect against them. ... Read more


12. AIDS Prevention (Teen Guides)
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: 62 Pages (1990-09)

Isbn: 0749603445
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A look at how AIDS is transmitted and the means to combat it. Fact boxes provide even more detailed information. ... Read more


13. The mercy men
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: Pages (1968-01-01)

Asin: B001MJVB6U
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14. Birth Control (Teen Guides)
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: 62 Pages (1988-09)

Isbn: 086313789X
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Explains the process of reproduction and why and how birth control is used. Describes different methods of birth control, their rates of effectiveness and their drawbacks. ... Read more


15. Your Immune System (First Books)
by Alan E. Nourse
 Paperback: 66 Pages (1982-12-31)

Isbn: 0531044629
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Discusses the workings of the body's immune defense system; what happens when this system functions perfectly, too vigorously, or not at all; and current research in immunology. ... Read more


16. Tiger by the tail
by Alan E. Nourse
 Paperback: Pages (1968-01-01)

Asin: B002C0M0G8
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17. Survival (Teen guides)
by Alan E. Nourse
 Hardcover: 64 Pages (1990-09)
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A survey of all threats to life, from illness, drugs and drinking to suicide and advice on how to stay alive. Fact boxes provide even more detailed information. ... Read more


18. A Man Obsessed | the Last Planet (Star Rangers)
by Alan E. | Norton, Andre Nourse
 Paperback: Pages (1955)

Asin: B001D81GOM
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19. Star Surgeon
by Alan E. Nourse
Paperback: 148 Pages (2006-10-05)
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20. Trouble On Titan
by Alan E. Nourse
 Paperback: 192 Pages (1986-12-01)
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Isbn: 0441824811
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars This was an intriguing book that influenced my destiny.
I read "Trouble on Titan" around 1970, when the Apollo program was at its apex, and the human exploration of the Solar System seemed only a short step away.My review is based on old memories, but I can stillremember a mining colony on Titan and jet craft using oxygen for fuel andburning Titan's methane atmosphere.We've learned much since this book waswritten, and Titan's atmosphere has less methane than we originallythought.However, this book was well written, and I am sure will intriguemy son as much as it intrigued his father, who is now working at NASA onthe Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan.This book has thatold-style sci-fi flavor that made another world seem more like reality thanfantasy.I think if you enjoyed the Lucky Starr and David Starr stories byAsimov, you will enjoy "Trouble on Titan." ... Read more


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