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It’s a nice capstone to a series which, by alot of weights and measures outstayed its welcome by a few years, putting the ridiculous set pieces of the last few years aside in favour of a single, simple truth; there will always be sick people, there will always be another shift. It’s both comforting and oddly poignant, the series ending where it began with normal people on the worst day of their lives being treated with compassion and kindness by doctors as normal as they are.  \nSo, where’s the emergency response science fiction? Where’s the science fiction analog for shows like ER? Or House for that matter?  \nI read and loved the Sector General books when I was growing up, and they’re as close as I’ve ever been able to find. The story of the first multi-species hospital it managed to combine epic scale SF with the sort of problem solving at the heart of shows like ER and a varied, likeable cast of characters. They’re wonderful books and continually find interesting ways to get drama and action out of something as simple as a character being ill, up to and including how to carry out an operation on a creature the size of a planet.  \nBut that’s all there is or, at least, all I’ve found. Where are the stories following doctors trying to deal with post singularity patients? Where are the stories about paramedics and firefighters struggling to deal  \n1  \nnot only with the advances in technology but the endless new ways people find to kill themselves using it? Where are the stories not about the brave new world but about what happens on our way to the brave new world? Because genre fiction deserves its own ER, it’s own House and I’d love to read them.  \nHub Magazine is Sponsored by Harper Collins  \nFICTION  \nObsession  \nby jo thomas  \n‘Our studies have revealed that the plant we call pine-bramble is a modified strain of the Norway Spruce. We don’t know what its creator intended, but the fact that it’s spread so far in under a year indicates that it is incredibly invasive and therefore dangerous.’  \nThe ecologist on the news looked tired, his face more lined and worn than Edward remembered it being when the man had made his first appearance months ago. The drive to find out the truth about this weed was clearly becoming an obsession; and the ecologist was suffering for it. He should have been more careful. It was all too easy to be seduced into such a fixation.  \nOne of the attendant journalists called out,‘So this is some kind of Frankenstein plant?’  \n‘We estimate that it was released in early January last year,’ the ecologist replied,‘That speed of growth is clearly not natural.’  \n‘So what did you need the tests for?’  \n‘To find out what it had been modified from and who by. We’ve narrowed down the place of origin. We know where it’s from.’  \nIn contrast, the woman beside him--the latest bright young thing to have been placed in charge of the emergency task force--looked rested and well-groomed. Her body language was confident and relaxed as she leant across and spoke into the microphone,‘Be assured, the Ministry is treating this issue as serious. We will find who is responsible for releasing this injurious weed, and they will be prosecuted.’  \nLike Edward watching from his breakfast bar, she obviously had a talent for controlling herself; for leaving work behind at the office at the end of the day.  \nThe journalists all clamoured ‘Where is it from? Who released it?’ but the minister and the ecologist ignored them all. 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