What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film.Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cove...

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 ...

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 ...

John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic history, but right now he's a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy.The Road to the Rim—meet Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service; fresh out of the Academy-and as green as they come.To Prime the Pump—El Dorado is a planet with a pressing problem: the...

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...

John Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants.

Number three in a six-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. 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 are the crowning tales of Grimes' career—the Grimes Rim Commodore stories. In these tales, Grimes has found his true calling out on the edge of galactic civilization. He's the sheriff of a realm where p...

Originally, Sparta was an all-male planet - an all-male population with everything that implies: babies - male babies only - produced by the so-called Birth Machine from an almost unending supply of fertilized ova brought by Sparta's founding father, a dyed-in-the-wool misogynist. But unnatural situations rarely stand the test of time, and it wasn't too long before Sparta bowed to Mother Nature.But there was still something rather strange about Sparta when John Grimes landed there t...

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...

In "John Ames, Native Commissioner," Bertram Mitford deftly navigates the complexities of colonial dynamics in early 20th-century South Africa through the lens of a dedicated, yet conflicted official. Mitford employs a rich, descriptive literary style that captures both the stark beauty of the African landscape and the intricate social fabrics of its native cultures. This narrative critiques imperialism while exploring themes of identity, duty, and the moral ambiguities faced by those in p...

El Dorado is a planet with a problem, the men are infertile and the woman are getting out of hand. Its up to John Grimes to save them from deadly peril.

The presidency of Barack Obama seeks a major transformation of American politics and policy. This new collection, edited by Steven E. Schier, examines the unusual combination of risk and ambition in Obama's presidency concerning popular politics, Washington politics, and economic and foreign policy. It also places the Obama presidency in historical perspective, noting the unusual circumstances of his election and the similarities and differences between presidential politics today and thos...