Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

* The Sector General books by James White The 1963 novel Star Surgeon is the source of the combined tractor / pressor beam weapon, the so-called " Rattler.

QCDA worked closely with its main strategic partners, including the Department for Education, the Office for Standards in Education ( Ofsted ), employers ' organisations, the Training and Development Agency for Schools ( TDA ), the Skills Funding Agency, the former General Teaching Council for England ( GTCE ) and the Sector Skills Councils ( SSC ).

The writers who have acknowledged his assistance include Anne McCaffrey for the Dragonriders of Pern ; Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes for their Legacy of Heorot ; James White of Sector General fame ; David Gerrold for the Chtorr ecology ; and Terry Pratchett for several works.

Another consequence of the victory was that Major General H. A. Lawrence, who had been in command of the Northern Sector of the Suez Canal defences and Romani during the battle, was transferred to the Western Front.

Each Sector consists of one or more administrative and / or Operational Ranges, headed by an officer of the rank of Deputy Inspector General ( DIG ) of Police.

The REF is hampered when the SDF-3 Pioneer fails to return from the Omicron Sector where it was overseeing a test-firing of a Neutron-S missile ; however, despite not having the SDF-3 and its powerful arsenal, General Rinhardt is forced to begin the attack.

Sector General is a series of twelve science fiction books and various short stories by the Northern Irish author James White.

The series derives its name from the setting of the majority of the books, the Sector 12 General Hospital, a huge hospital space station located in deep space, designed to treat a wide variety of life forms with a wide range of ailments and life-support requirements, and to house an equally-diverse staff.

Sector General is a gigantic multi-species hospital space station founded as a peace-promoting project by two heroes from opposite sides of humanity's only full interstellar war.

Sector General was founded to promote inter-species harmony, and therefore all medical staff must be prepared to treat beings with very different physiologies and behavior patterns, and sometimes with environmental requirements that would be lethal to staff without suitable protection.

Diagnosticians, the medical elite of Sector General, can have as many as ten different tapes active at one time, as they may have to supervise treatment of many species at the same time.

The Sector General series defined the sub-genre of multi-species medical stories,

Sector General was " the first explicitly pacifist space opera " series, while much of contemporary space opera from the USA was notably military.

Michael Ashley commented that the setting of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is reminiscent of Sector General.

For example Gary Westfahl wrote that " the Sector General stories remained consistently fresh and involving, and they grew in prominence as the series progressed.

Clinton Lawrence described the last Sector General book, Double Contact ( 1999 ), 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 Sector General series began as short stories published in New Worlds from 1957 onwards.

* Sector General ( 1983 )

* Alien Emergencies ( 2002 ) contains Ambulance Ship, Sector General and Star Healer.

* Tales of Sector General ( 1999 ) contains The Galactic Gourmet, Final Diagnosis, and Mind Changer.

* White's short story Sector General is in the book Hospital Station.

However the editor of Science Fiction Adventures removed all reference to Sector General from Occupation: Warrior because he thought it was too grim to be treated as part of the series.

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Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

The developers of the game Dark Sector have stated they have been heavily influenced by The Legend of Zelda series, and that the structure of the game is much like a Zelda game.

According to DoD documents, “ The MIL-STD-188 series may be based on, or make reference to, Joint Technical Architecture, American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) standards, International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T ) recommendations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Standardization Agreements ( STANAG ), and other standards wherever applicable .”

In 2006 he appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, and as the Sector 7 agent Simmons in three films of the Transformers live-action series.

A Sector Support Programme, providing access to space for a selected series of small / medium sized local performance groups ( primarily using a circus vocabulary ).

She first appeared in the season 2 episode Operation: S. U. P. P. O. R. T .. She is formerly a KND operative: Numbuh 11, leader and 2x4 tech officer of Sector V three years prior to the start of the series.

Hospital Station is a 1962 science fiction book by author James White and is the first volume in the Sector General series.

*" Sector General "-The first story of the main series ' narrative.

The Omega Octant runs from the Void in the Omega Sector through the Psi, Chi and Phi Sectors ( though Phi is mostly off the detailed Omega map, as Delta is in the Alpha Octant ), and is detailed in a series of Star Fleet Battles modules ( and a playtest pack for Federation Commander ).

While the Space Opera rules can be adapted to any imagined universe, the official universe was based on the nations described in Mark Ratner's Space Marines, and further defined through a series of Star Sector Atlases.

* " Countercharm " ( in the Sector General series )

* " Tableau " ( in the Sector General series )

There are nine playable stages in Versus mode, eight based on each of the starting characters ( such as Princess Peach's Castle for Mario, Zebes for Samus, and Sector Z for Fox ) and the unlockable Mushroom Kingdom, based around motifs from the original Super Mario Bros. ( from which the English-language name of the Smash series comes ), even containing original sprites and the original version of the Overworld theme from that game.

* Cinruss-James White's Sector General series

Hal Jordan ( who at the time of the series ’ publication, had long been dead ) is then summoned by the Guardians of the Universe to rendezvous with fellow Green Lanterns Kilowog, Katma Tui, Tomar Re, The Green Man and Salaak on the planet Tirama in Sector 1522.

Arthur and the others who died in the books are instead teleported by their Babel Fish to somewhere safer than Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.

The Koprulu Sector ( from Turkish köprülü, meaning bridged ) is the main setting for games and books about the fictional StarCraft universe.

This story along with Fanatic ( in HHA4 ) serve together as background for the ' Wages of Sin ' spin-off novel sub-series books Crown of Slaves and Torch of Freedom, geographically covering events in the Solarian League Meyers Sector or the Torch-Erewhon region among the verge systems.

The story opens in flashback, ten years before the ( at the time ) current continuity of the Green Lantern comic books, showing an extraterrestrial Barin Char, the Green Lantern of Sector 1522, dying when a xenomorph bursts from his chest.