Doctor
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who want a quick taste of Murray Leinster's short fiction
- Fans of early science fiction who prefer complete short stories
- Teachers and organizers who need a discussion text for class or a reading group
- Commuters or readers with fragmented time who want a complete story
Not a good fit for
- Hard science fiction fans seeking long-form world-building and complex settings
- Readers hoping for modern medical detail and rigorous medical reasoning
- Those unaccustomed to early science fiction's narrative pace and character treatment
Reading tips
- Read it through in one sitting, then revisit the conflict clues planted at the beginning.
- Note how the "doctor" identity shapes judgment and keep brief character notes.
- For a reading group, design discussion questions around professional responsibility and crisis decisions.
- After reading, compare it with contemporary science fiction short stories in narrative pace and character function.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Murray Leinster (1896–1975) was an American science fiction writer whose real name was William Fitzgerald Jenkins. He was a prolific author of short stories and novels, and this site holds thirty-nine of his works, including The Mad Planet, The Pirates of Ersatz, The Machine That Saved The World, The Forgotten Planet, The Wailing Asteroid, The Invaders, The Runaway Skyscraper, and Scrimshaw. His science fiction often deals with interstellar adventure, strange planets, and technological speculation, with tightly plotted, boldly imaginative narratives that also reflect on human society and the conditions of survival; some works are also categorized as inspirational growth. Public information is limited, making biographical details difficult to describe, but the surviving works show his important place in twentieth-century American popular science fiction and his influence on later writers in the genre.
