Hostess by Isaac Asimov « Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction

A medical doctor from Hawkin’s Planet comes to Earth to study Inhibition Death, a non-human disease.

Title: Hostess

Author: Isaac Asimov

Length: short story

First Publication: Galaxy, 1951; audio from the X Minus One radio show, broadcast 1956

What the Story is About: From Wikipedia:

Harg Tholan, a medical doctor and researcher from the planet known as Hawkin’s Planet arrives on Earth and visits Rose Smollett, a research biologist and her husband Drake, ostensibly a police officer but in fact an agent of a secret government organization. Dr Tholan is researching a disease known as Inhibition Death, unknown on Earth, and reveals his theory that a sixth parasitic non-physical intelligence exists that lives in the minds of the humans.

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