The second in a six-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! Classic Star Trek meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here it is, the entire "Captain John Grimes—Far Traveller Courier" saga, collected in one volume. These are the tales of John Grimes' action-packed merchantman and courier years. After moving on from the Terran Navy, Grimes tries ...

Il bordo dello spazio di A. Bertram Chandler è un'avventura mozzafiato alla frontiera selvaggia della galassia. Conosci Derek Calver, un navigatore ribelle con un passato segnato dalle ombre, che si tuffa a capofitto nell'universo rude e senza legge dei corridori del confine. Questi outsider e reietti – naufraghi della rispettata Commissione di Trasporto Interstellare, del Servizio di Esplorazione e dei luccicanti clipper transgalattici – guidano navi scricchiolanti e obso...

The Rim of Space by A. Bertram Chandler is a heart-pounding adventure on the wild frontier of the galaxy with The Rim of Space! Meet Derek Calver, a rogue spacer with a haunted past, diving headfirst into the gritty, lawless world of the Rim Runners. These misfits and outcasts—castaways from the elite Interstellar Transport Commission, the Survey Service, and the glamorous Trans-Galactic Clippers—pilot creaking, outdated ships along the g...

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:Into the Alternate Universe (1964)Contraband from Otherspace (1967)The ...

***El borde del espacio***de A. Bertram Chandler es una trepidante aventura en la salvaje frontera de la galaxia. Conoce a Derek Calver, un renegado espacial con un pasado que lo atormenta, que se sumerge de cabeza en el crudo y anárquico mundo de los Rim Runners. Estos inadaptados y marginados —desechados por la elitista Comisión de Transporte Interestelar, el Servicio de Exploración y los glamurosos Clippers Transgalácticos— pilotan naves chirriantes y obsoletas por el peligroso borde de...

His wild career as a space pirate ended, Grimes faced his toughest assignment - he was "punished" by being made governor of the anarchists' own planet! John Grimes, living legend of the spaceways, had been in and out of some cosmic catastrophes but this threatened to reach his luck's ultimate breaking point!An influx of planetary refugees had made that world a paradise of cheap labor and the original anarchist colonists had become such masters of wealth that no mere outsider could ...

THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAYHis was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man—driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off—determined to set up a shuttle between the planets at the Rim of the galaxy.But trouble—in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the descendants of a mu...

A borda do espaço di A. Bertram Chandler é uma aventura de tirar o fôlego na fronteira selvagem da galáxia. Conheça Derek Calver, um navegador rebelde com um passado marcado pelas sombras, que mergulha de cabeça no universo rude e sem lei dos corredores do limite. Esses outsiders e rejeitados – náufragos da respeitada Comissão de Transporte Interestelar, do Serviço de Exploração e dos reluzentes clippers transgalácticos – conduzem naves rangentes e obsoletas ao longo das p...

Being lost in space was no new experience to John Grimes, whose career as an interstellar officer had brought him into many such dilemmas. But being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.Complicating the matter was the discovery that the very universe was not their own but an alternate and that their captor seemed to be the omnipotent force of that entire other cosmos.As Grime's only companion was the comely policewoman, Una Freeman, the fate that the Alie...

Number four in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:The Anarch Lords: John Grimes' short career as a somewhat benevolent space pirate is over, but he has sunk even lower, becoming a politician. He's now the governor of a planet of anarchists, where term limits are unnecessary, what with all the assassinations taking place.The Last Amazon: Back on Sp...

In luck and out of luck, John Grimes was a living legend of the spaceways. He had been an officer of the service, he had been the victim of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under strange masters and on strange ships, but he had never turned space pirate. Until this adventure.How it happened was a complex story to begin with, but typical Grimes luck. How he became the terror of the star lanes developed, as usual, from his own efforts to make an honest living an...

The Far Traveler was hardly the sort of starship to use in the study of lost space colonies. Lost colonies were likely to be desperate, eccentric and otherwise unappreciative. And The Far Traveler was a rich woman's toy, constructed of gold and directed by an omniscient, dictatorial and feminine computer known as Big Sister.John Grimes had become that golden vessel's captain. A captain in name only because nobody could talk back to Big Sister or the haughty beauty...