Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.

But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle’s in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of “Physical Therapy” consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.

And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.

"Violent, erotic, blasphemous, and extreme." -

"Without apologies, White tears through your emotions, from sympathy to hate, humor to shock..." -

From a world-ending orgy to home liposuction. From the hidden desires of politicians to a woman with a fetish for lions. This is a place where necrophilia, self-mutilation, and murder are all roads to love. collects the most extreme erotic horror from the celebrated hardcore horror master. Wrath James White is your guide through sex, death, and the darkest desires of the heart.

Who Wants Some of Wrath’s Sloppy Seconds? …

Who wouldn’t? Each year at the World Horror Convention, the most anticipated event is the Gross-Out Contest, where authors stand up in front of everyone and deliver some of the most disturbing, gut-wrenching tales anyone has ever heard.

Wrath James White’s stories are among the best of them. Now, we present his stories for the first time in print — uncut.

Here are his four stories from previous years, as well as his entry for the 2008 WHC.

But there’s more! We have a bonus story that is “one of the most grotesque and horrific murder/rape/revenge stories I have ever written.”

One of the most distinctive volumes of American weird fiction, all of which were based on nightmares of the author, a classics teacher in the Baltimore area and a longtime sufferer from migraine ("sick headaches," as he called them) who killed himself after the death of his beloved wife. 

 White wrote fiction in the summer to supplement his income, his most successful work being the solid but now rather dull works of historical fiction. Another motive, for the stories, was to get them out of his system. All of the stories in this collection have an unforced strangeness to them that is emblematic of their origins. The title story, anthologized twenty-three times according to Ashley and Contento, is fairly well known, but all of the others are worth reading as well. There is nothing else quite like this stuff. It is doubly unusual for its period, when American fiction underwent a divorce between the slicks and the pulps. White's nightmare stories were too grotesque for the slicks, and too "literary" for the pulps. Like the work of many another genius they turned out to be better suited for posterity than for his own time.

Ambulance Ship is a 1979 science fiction novel by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

“Contagion” — An ancient sleeper ship is found whose last occupants died only months before. The rescue ship and ambulance crews come down with a mysterious illness.

“Quarantine” — The sole survivor from a spacewreck is brought back to the hospital, and stuns everyone by downing half the surgical team.

“Recovery” — A ship is found with absolutely no visible markings. A torture corridor inside beats on whatever passes, including a violent non-sentient and a telepathic sentient who communicates with the ambulance staff about the Blind Ones’ need.

Chirurgien galactique est le deuxième tome de la courte série Le Secteur Général, de James White. Dans le premier volume, L'Hôpital des étoiles, nous découvrions le gigantesque centre de soins construit par la Fédération Galactique, capable d'accueillir et de soigner toutes les créatures de la galaxie.

Le personnage principal des deux romans, Conway, est un médecin terrien, talentueux, mais un peu immature. Il est chaperonné par le psychiatre et directeur du Secteur Général, O’Mara.

Code Blue — Emergency is a 1987 science fiction novel written by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

White said in an interview that originally he intended to end the series with (1985), by which time the central characters had reached the top levels in their careers. However Ballantine Books persuaded him to continue, and he extended the stories’ range by introducing new central characters beginning with .

The protagonist of the story is Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat. She bravely saved a human pilot who crashlanded on her planet, despite a complete lack of knowledge about his physiology. Contact with her species was established by the accident, so knowledge of their social customs is still virtually non-existent. However, she is invited to join the Sector General staff.

Cha Thrat innocently wreaks havoc by following her instincts and social customs. First she befriends a hypochondriac Chalder. Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (see Star Healer.) When given the honor of cutting the limb, she obliges — and then deliberately cuts her own arm off as well, in accordance with the custom of her people. Next she saves the untouchable patient Khone (see Star Healer), and then finds a weird parasite species on a derelict spaceship. Due to the chaos she causes, every department in the hospital now refuses to allow her near their patients. O’Mara values her unusual approaches, and decides to add her to his staff.

Das Projekt ist gigantisch: ein Krankenhaus im All, das dafür vorgesehen und dazu eingerichtet ist, selbst den bizarrsten Lebensformen der Galaxis im Krankheitsfall oder bei Unfällen zu helfen. Ebenso ungewöhnlich wie die Patienten sind auch die Ärzte und das Pflegepersonal des Krankenhauses. Dennoch sind nicht immer die geeigneten Spezialisten vorhanden, häufig weiß man nur wenig über Metabolismus, Verhaltensweise oder Krankheit eines neuen Patienten.

Dann beginnt ein Wettlauf mit der Zeit, um die richtige Diagnose zu stellen und die Heilbehandlung einzuleiten. Nicht selten geschieht das erst in letzter Sekunde, am Rand der Katastrophe…

ORBIT HOSPITAL

Double Contact is a 1999 science fiction book by author James White and is the last in the Sector General series.

Clinton Lawrence described as “in a very positive way, a throwback to an earlier era in science fiction” since it is optimistic and depicts several advanced species working harmoniously. The struggle to build trust and produce a successful first contact is, he thought, as exciting and suspenseful as one could wish for. However Lawrence also noted that the level of characterization was the minimum required to support the plot.

This book has an unusual feature in personal pronoun usage: in most Sector General stories, one human is “he” or “she” (or other grammatical case forms) and one alien is “it”. But, in , often in the text the character Prilicla is “he” and a human or a member of any other species is “it”.

Final Diagnosis is a 1997 science fiction novel by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.

A man suffering from multiple mysterious illnesses and allergic reactions is labelled a hypochondriac. Finally he is sent to Sector General as a last resort. He befriends his fellow alien patients, telling them his life history. Rather than dismissing his complaints, the attentive hospital doctors develop a theory, and bring him back to his home planet. At the scene of a childhood accident that seems to have started it all, explanations are found.