Maybe it's weird reading about a pandemic during a pandemic, but hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Guess we're lucky in that we're "only" dealing with a coronavirus this time around. In The Fourth Horseman, the terror is a resurgent strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for both the first recorded pandemic in history (starting in 541CE and lasting for over two centuries) as well as the Black Plague, the well-known 14th century bubonic variant which ran rampant for a mere seven years, yet wound up the single most catastrophic pandemic known to humanity. Originally written in 1983, thus prior to the Internet, cellular phones, and plenty of other luxuries we take for granted in the 21st century, I'll say this: Nourse was nothing if not prescient when it comes to how the United States (as a whole) would behave if a world-wide pandemic suddenly crapped itself into our laps. His pen names included "Al Edwards" and "Doctor X". His novel Star Surgeon has been recorded as a public domain audio book at LibriVox Burroughs commissioned to write a story treatment no film was ever developed but the story treatment was later published as the novella, Blade Runner (a movie). Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In the late 1970s an attempt to adapt The Bladerunner for the screen was made, with Beat Generation author William S. His novel The Bladerunner lent its name to the Blade Runner movie, but no other aspects of its plot or characters, which were taken from Philip K. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Nourse's wife Ann. Heinlein dedicated his 1964 novel Farnham's Freehold to Nourse. He was a friend of fellow author Avram Davidson. His regular column in Good Housekeeping magazine earned him the nickname "Family Doctor". After retiring from medicine, he continued writing. He had helped pay for his medical education by writing science fiction for magazines.
He practiced medicine in North Bend, Washington from 1958 to 1963 and also pursued his writing career. He served his one year internship at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, Washington. He received a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree in 1955 from the University of Pennsylvania. He married Ann Morton on Jin Lynden, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He attended high school in Long Island, New York. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science.Īlan Nourse was born to Benjamin and Grace (Ogg) Nourse. Alan Edward Nourse was an American science fiction (SF) author and physician.
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