{"product_id":"the-hate-disease","title":"The Hate Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Hate Disease\u003c\/strong\u003e is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster first published in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 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 ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDr. Calhoun and his pet tormal Murgatroyd work for the Interstellar Medical Service making routine public health inspections on far-flung colonial planets.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf he can keep from turning into a Para, or being assassinated by them he just might figure this thing out.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hate Disease\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in \u003cem\u003eAnalog Science Fact \u0026amp; Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e August 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMurray Leinster\u003c\/strong\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46365487628498,"sku":"10848a73-949a-3f8b-b690-db384523bbe6","price":2.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_503f3d5b-8b4e-477c-91eb-f6d4c0fa159b.jpg?v=1762996554","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-hate-disease","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}