The fifth omnibus edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram
Chandler's John Grimes books and stories in this renowned SF
space-faring saga. Contains Into the Alternate Universe, Contraband
from Otherspace, The Rim Gods (1969)--a story collection, The
Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)--four novellas.
Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes
(think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of
the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the
spaceways of the galactic rim.
Number five in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of
the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:
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Into the Alternate Universe* (1964)
Contraband from Otherspace (1967)
The Rim Gods (1969)--story collection
The Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)--four novelets
**About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series:
**"SF's answer to Horatio Hornblower." --Publishers Weekly
"As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future
History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds." --Analog
"[Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that
felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed [Chandler's] space operas are
among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . ." --*The
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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