A. Bertram Chandler - Böcker

John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course ofGalactic history. But right now he’s a wet-behind-the-ears junior officerwho finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in hiscourses at the Academy. Introducing three John Grimes novels (The Road to the Rim,To Prime the Pump, The Broken Cycle) by A. Bertram Chandler and astory collection (The Hard Way Up), all in one attractively-priced volumeof space adventure.

Book 3 in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of theGalactic Rim series! If space travel is going to be anything like sailingthe oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence inhis Grimes novels. Here are the crowning tales of Grimes' career — theGrimes “Rim Commodore” stories. In these tales, Grimes has found histrue calling out on the edge of galactic civilization. He’s the sheriff ofa realm where pioneer colonies and parallel dimensions overlap, and a starshipcaptain must be prepared for adventure in ALL possible worlds.Includes an astounding (as in, mostly published in Astounding andAnalog by legendary editor John W. Campbell) cornucopia of Grimes novelsbringing together all previous Commodore Grimes tales in Star Courier,To Keep the Ship, Matilda’s Stepchildren, and StarLoot.

Upon a Sea of Stars is the fifth omnibus edition of the classicscience fiction of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes books and stories in thisrenowned SF space-faring saga. Contains Into the Alternate Universe,Contraband from Otherspace, The Rim Gods (1969), and TheCommodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971).Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes movesout of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along thespaceways of the galactic rim.