From rec.arts.sf.written Sat Jul 11 14:30:49 1992 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: herkules.sssab.se!isy!liuida!sunic!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!world!jwenn From: jwenn@world.std.com (John C Wenn) Subject: Author Lists: Alan Nourse Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1992 14:34:24 GMT Lines: 47 Alan Nourse is probably most famous for providing the title (but nothing else) to the movie _Balderunner_. In actuallity, his novel _The Blade Runner_ is about smuggling illegal medical supply where medical care was tightly controlled by the government. Gun Runner / Blade Runner, get it? Most of his work had some medical element. The fact that Alan Nourse was a practicing doctor helped give his work a basis of reality. [C] == Story Collection. [YA] == The book is for young adults (however you define them). [= ...] == Also known by this other title. exp == Expansion of other title. /John arpa: jwenn@world.std.com brainbrainwhatisbrain-ly ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nourse, Alan E(dward) (U.S.A., 8/11/1928- ) (wrote as Al Edwards) The Blade Runner (1974) The Counterfeit Man (1963) [C] The Fourth Horseman (1983) A Man Obsessed (1955) The Mercy Men (1968) [exp. of A Man Obsessed] Psi High and Others (1967) [C] Raiders from the Rings (1962) [YA] Rocket to Limbo (1957) [YA] Rx for Tomorrow (1971) [C] Scavengers in Space (1959) [YA] Star Surgeon (1960) Tiger By the Tail (1961) [C= Beyond Infinity] Trouble on Titan (1954) [YA] The Universe Between (1965) with J. A. Meyer The Invaders Are Coming (1959) Non-Genre Fiction Junior Intern (1955) The Practice (1978) Nonfiction (over 30 nonfiction books)