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John Grimes: Rim Runner
| Author: | A. Bertram Chandler |
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Science Fiction Book Club, 2004 |
| Series: | John Grimes: SFBC Set: Book 5 |
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1. John Grimes: Lieutenant of the Survey Service |
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| Book Type: | Omnibus |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Further adventures on the edge of space and time!
Once a spacer, always a spacer. Now practical, hard-headed Grimes is not the sort to believe in ghosts. But he's willing to give psychics a chance when shapely Sonya Verrill, a commander in the Federation Survey Service, proposes a ghost-hunting expedition in the sector around Kingsolving's Planet. Out where the fabric of space wears thin, ships have encountered Rim Ghosts - apparitions of craft and crewmates from alternate universes. When Grimes organizes a seance to make contact, their ship is yanked Into the Alternate Universe, and their only hope of getting home gain may lie in a lost relic - a sleeper ship from the first age of space exploration. After their wild ghost ride, Grimes and Sonya embark on a wholly different adventure: marriage. But running their own little shipping company takes a back seat to danger when a distress call leads the pair to an alien ship from an alternate universe - a ship carrying Contraband from Otherspace - mutant rats who evolved to rule their universe... and threaten to break through into ours.
In The Rim Gods, Grimes is drawn into four perilous adventures, when a ship full of religious fanatics uses a psionic to summon God, when a rogue Rim Worlder tries to sell advanced weaponry to the robber barons of Tangaroa, when trouble in the form of a predatory starfish threatens to ruin the economy of Mellise, and when an impossible planet appears out of nowhere - a world where dragons, fairies, and sleeping beauties are real. Another visit to Kingsolving's Planet, where the boundaries between reality and surreality are almost non-existent, finds The Commander at Sea. For he is whisked to a continuum in which fictional characters exist, and he is surprised to meet Sherlock Holmes, Lady Chatterly, Tarzan and Jane, and... A. Bertram Chandler?
Table of Contents:
- 1 - Into the Alternate Universe - [John Grimes - 17] - (1964) - novel
- 119 - Contraband from Otherspace - [John Grimes - 18] - (1967) - novel
- 225 - The Rim Gods - [John Grimes - 20] - (1968) - novel
- 359 - The Commodore at Sea - [John Grimes - 21] - (1971) - collection (variant of Alternate Orbits)
- 363 - Hall of Fame - [John Grimes] - (1969) - novelette (variant of The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars)
- 395 - The Sister Ships - [John Grimes] - (1971) - novelette (variant of Sister Ships)
- 426 - The Man Who Sailed the Sky - [John Grimes] - (1971) - novelette
- 459 - The Rub - [John Grimes] - (1970) - novelette
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