The Hate Disease (ljudbok) av Murray Leinster

The Hate Disease is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster first published in  1963.The Med Service people hit strange problems as routine: if they weren’t weirdos, they weren’t tough enough to merit Med Service attention. Now the essence of a weird problem is that it involves a factor nobody ever thought of before … or the absence of one nobody ever missed …Dr. Calhoun and his pet tormal Murgatroyd work for the Interstellar Medical Service making routine public health inspections on far-flung colonial planets. When they reach Tallien Three they are greeted with a rocket attack by the Paras, a mutated form of human rapidly replacing the “normals”. The normals think it’s a pandemic of demonic possession but Calhoun has his doubts. If he can keep from turning into a Para, or being assassinated by them he just might figure this thing out. The Hate Disease was first published in Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1963.Total Running Time (TRT): 2 hours, 1 min. Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.