The Aliens Among Us(1969)

James White

From Sector General, the incredible space hospital where strange and wonderful doctors and patients are drawn from all species, to the barren storm-tossed hills of Donegal--the aliens are coming! ON EARTH OR ON SECTOR GENERAL...THE ALIENS ARE HERE. *Star Surgeon Conway had to share his brain with an alien medic--and the alien was taking over; *The Orligs were cute, cuddly teddy bears--and they wanted to to batter all humans to death; *Colonel Dermod had to fight a war--but his troops were cowards, handpicked by the enemy; *Humans hardly stood a chance in a telepathic cat-and-mouse game of sorts; ...and more... This short-story collection includes one, Countercharm, set in White's popular Sector General hospital books, but most of the others are set in the same Countercharm concerns Dr. Conway's encounter with one of the hazards of his profession. Doctors at Sector General receive their xenomedical knowledge from 'Educator Tapes,' the recorded minds of ET physicians. But you don't just get their medical knowledge, you get everything including their sex drive -- which can lead to embarrassing and distracting consequences. To Kill or Cure, a Navy rescue team discovers the wreck they discovered is 'not of this world'. They do their best to help the injured, sluglike beings inside, but do they dare let them contact their friends? Red Alert, an alien species is deliberately formenting military tensions on Earth. Is this a preliminary to invasion? Or is something else going on? Tableau, Earth's first contact with another species results in war. Then an Earth soldier and one of the alien Orligians find themselves trapped together in the wreckage of their ships and discover it's all due to a horrible misunderstanding. Conspirators, the laboratory animals aboard the the first intersteller explorer plan their escape with the help of the ship's cat and a pet canary. The Scavengers, a Terran taskforce is assigned to 'clean up' those aliens who survived the initial attack. Warrior, not only provides the missing half to the first Sector General book, Hospital Station, but gives the unexpected background of Fleet Commander Dermod..