Editing James White (author) (section)

===Collections and short stories===
The title story of White's collection ''[[Deadly Litter]]'' (1964) anticipated the dangers of [[space debris]] although there had been only a few orbital missions.<ref>{{cite journal | title=The Perfume of Garbage: Modernity and the Archaeological | author=Michael Shanks, David Platt and William L. Rathje | journal=Modernism/Modernity | volume=11 | issue=1 | pages=61–83 | url=http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/writing/M-M-Garbage.pdf | access-date=19 December 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325170247/http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/~mshanks/writing/M-M-Garbage.pdf | archive-date=25 March 2009 | df=dmy-all | doi=10.1353/mod.2004.0027 | year=2004 | s2cid=145192839 }}</ref> ''The White Papers''  was produced by [[NESFA]] (New England Science Fiction Association) to commemorate White's being the Guest-of-Honour at the 1996 [[Worldcon]],<ref name="Resnick1996WhitePapersIntro" /> and includes short stories and fan magazine articles by White, plus sections of Gary Louie's guide to the [[Sector General]] series. Among the stories, "Custom Fitting" (1976) was short-listed for a Hugo Award,<ref>{{cite web
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|title       = The ''Locus'' Index to SF Awards: 1977 Hugo Awards
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}}</ref> and "Sanctuary" (1988) won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/AnLab1989.html#nva | access-date=19 December 2008 | title=1989 Analog Analytical Laboratory | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504002632/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/AnLab1989.html#nva | archive-date=4 May 2009 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> His short story "[[Un-Birthday Boy]]", published in the magazine [[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|''Analog'']] in 1996 but not in a collection or anthology,<ref name="SectorgeneralBiobiblio" /> was short-listed for a Hugo Award.<ref>{{cite web
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|title       = The ''Locus'' Index to SF Awards: 1997 Hugo Awards
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}}</ref>

Other collections include:<ref name="SectorgeneralBiobiblio" />
* ''[[The Aliens Among Us]]'' (1969)
* ''Monsters and Medics'' (1977; published by Ballantine Books; includes the novel ''Second Ending'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reviewers-choice.com/monsters_and_medics.htm|title=Reviewers Choice Reviews: Monsters And Medics|last=Calderwood|first=J.|date=December 2003|publisher=Reviewer's Choice Reviews|access-date=28 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106041351/http://www.reviewers-choice.com/monsters_and_medics.htm|archive-date=6 January 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Futures Past'' (1982) (includes the Sector General story "Spacebird")