"After the Solar Queen leaves Sargol, the crew begins to fall ill one by one. That’s bad enough but they then discover that they have been designated a plague ship by the Patrol, which is presumably acting on information from those rascals on the IS ship (whose knowledge about the Solar Queen’s predicament suggests that they themselves orchestrated the illness). The Patrol takes a firm view on disease control and the treatment they prefer for plague ships is to drop them and their unlucky crews into a star. And the Patrol isn’t inclined to listen to protestations from crews claiming that the source of their malady isn’t a contagious disease but a previously unknown alien pest." - JDN ..........
"This is science fiction in its age of relative innocence. No girls. Navigation solely by human brainpower (at considerable cost to the navigator’s stamina). And nothing in orbit; rockets zip and skip and pride themselves on four-point fin landings. It’s very much an artifact of its time, but it’s an enjoyable one. There’s a brightness to it. It’s fun." - Judith Tarr ..........
"Plague Ship is a rip-snortingly inventive yarn that’s one of [Andrew North's] better novels, a combination of medical mystery, anthropological adventure and space gallop." - Patrick T. Reardon
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