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A. Bertram Chandler

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Aug 2 2011 Captain John Grimes: Far Traveller Courier
The second in a three-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 his hand at leading a private life, and finds he likes being his own man.  The only problem is, his ship The Far Traveller has a (very stubborn and very feminine) mind of its own -- and a penchant for getting Grimes into the worse sort of interplanetary pickles! 

Includes:  The Far Traveller (with the classic John Grimes stories that started it all), Star Courier, To Keep the Ship, Matilda’s Stepchildren, Star Loot, The Anarch Lords, The Last Amazon, and The Wild Ones.

About A. Bertram Chandler:

“He writes his stories in the middle of a hurricane with his typewriter lashed to his desk.” – John W. Campbell, legendary editor of Astounding Science Fiction


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Product Details

  • Paperback: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Baen; Original edition (Aug 2 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143913457X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439134573
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 4.3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 544 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #656,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

A. Bertram Chandler was an Australian SF master who filled magazines such as Astounding  with adventure and space opera extraordinaire during the 1960s and 1970s.  He was a favorite of legendary editor John W. Campbell and was a merchantman seaman commanding various ships in the Australian and New Zealand navies during much of his early life – a background Chandler puts to full use in his John Grimes stories.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Good and Not Bad make for So-so Feb 5 2013
By J. R. Trtek - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the second volume of four in the omnibus set of John Grimes books by A. Bertram Chandler. Grimes is an officer in the Survey Service, an arm of -- of course -- a Federation. He's bluff and no-nonsense, and also rather lucky, including with women despite his lack of suaveness. Written on the order of forty years ago, these particular stories recount his discovery of so-called Lost Colonies, including one that results in a mutiny that forces him to resign from the Service and take up as ceremonial captain of a private space yacht. And those last few words will perhaps give an idea of where these tales lie in the multi-dimensional spectrum of science fiction. The first two stories in this volume, Spartan Planet and The Inheritors, aren't much to write home about. The plots are predictable and the themes a bit stale in this day and age, and in the former Grimes is relegated to the role of a minor supporting character. Things pick up a bit in The Big Black Mark, which is the tale of mutiny. Here there's a reasonable ensemble of characters, though not a lot of textured character development. The Far Traveller sees Grimes set out as the powerless skipper of a rich woman's private craft, and while it's a tale that starts out interstingly enough, for me it became flat and, once again, a bit cliche in the second half. These stories were hardly state of the art science fiction even in the early 1970s, and at least two of them have not aged well in the interim, and there is a frequent overlay of outdated sexism. Still, if you can put yourself mentally in, say, 1952, The Big Black Mark and The Far Traveller don't read half badly. You might want to see if your local library has this book, however. I did.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun! Jan 26 2013
By John Hales - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As classic space opera goes, this series is light mentally but highly entertaining! If there is a bucket to step into, John Grimes will do it but comes out with a piece of apple pie in his hand.
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard to get into Nov 19 2012
By Donald O. Capstick - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Difficult to get and hold my attention. I was expecting military sci-fi writing more in the line of David Weber, Eric Flint, John Ringo, Elizabeth Moon, David Drake, etc.

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