Series
Ole Doc Methuselah
L. Ron Hubbard · 5 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1 collection · 1947–1970
Ole Doc Methuselah collects L. Ron Hubbard's linked pulp science fiction stories about the 'Soldiers of Light,' an order of near-immortal interstellar physicians, first serialized in Astounding in 1947 and gathered into one volume in 1970. Each story follows the same itinerant doctor treating outbreaks and injustices on different worlds, in the style of a serialized adventure rather than a single continuous plot. It is a single-volume story cycle rather than a multi-book series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Ole Doc Methuselah at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s6
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
5 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionimmortalityother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Ole Doc Methuselahdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense