- Science fiction
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Alan Edward Nourse
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- D. McKay Co.
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679202899
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 1 have read it and 2 want to.
Subjects
About Alan Edward Nourse · 1928–1992
American writer and physician
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
- Child of the Hunt 199885% alikeBoth classical in form, unpretentious, grave.
Both classical in form, unpretentious, grave.
Asylum 201384% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
Starswarm 199884% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, unpretentious.
Hidden 201484% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, contemporary.
The Spooks Destiny 201283% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, unpretentious.
Drakon 199683% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, contemporary.
The ruins 200683% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, contemporary.
Mystery Island 202385% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, grave, contemporary.
Timescape 199284% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, grave, unpretentious.