 This is a book that I've been wondering about for years. This is The Blade Runner, the original Blade Runner, the actual Blade Runner by Alan E. Norse. It's about a young man who literally runs blades for a surgeon who is performing underground medicine in the near future, which actually takes place right about today. It's not a good book. In fact, it's very bad. He goes to a secret location, he picks up a package that contains pre-sterilized surgeons instruments and masks and gloves and so on and so forth. Then he goes to a private residence and meets a surgeon and his nurse and his anesthetist there and they perform whatever medicine they need to on the kitchen table. It's a weak premise. The plot is full of holes like crazy. Most of the book is actually preoccupied with describing this near future universal health care system where people are automatically sterilized if they have to visit a hospital more than three times. There are violent anti-healthcare protesters who they're not just opposed to the health care system, they're opposed to health care itself. It's an idea that I would reject on the face of it if it were not for the anti-vaxxer movement that we're having to deal with today. But that aspect of the book isn't even terribly interesting. It's extremely repetitive and long-winded and preachy and I can't even figure out really what it's preaching about. It's just not really worth reading. Alan Enors was a very prolific science fiction writer. He wrote a lot of novels and tons of short stories. In fact, I got this book a couple years ago. You will have seen this cover. Really beautiful classic retro cover. I had intended to review this book at some point. It's a collection of Alan Enors's short stories but there's not a thing in here worth talking about or even remembering. He was a prolific author and well known in his field but exceptionally mediocre. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr. That's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.