DAW Books, 1979. Collectors' No. 327. Mass market paperback original. Cover art by Don Maitz. This is a John Grimes novel. 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 the vessels captain and sets off to look for lost space colonies.

In his long and fabulous career as the Captain Hornblower of space, John Grimes was to experience many strange things, rising through the ranks of the Interstellar Federation from triumphs to disaster, and ultimately becoming the most famous of the Rim Runners, far out along the edge of the Milky Way. But there was a period when Grimes fell between one cosmic empire and another, on his own, commander only of a single deep-space pinnace and looking for work. And that was when he became a god! He thought he was just doing a mailman's job, but the price of the postage turned out to be divinity - with a lovely nude postmistress certified for a goddess!

vg++ condition. 1st Daw 1978 edition paperback book. 295. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

STAMPED IMPRESSION ON FIRST PAGE. MINOR WEAR ON EDGES OF COVERS. LIGHT TANNING INSIDE COVERS.

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 and other's efforts to use him for devious diversions. This is the latest Grimes novel - a story of the loot of the stars, of how Grimes graduated from operator of a space courier ship to master of a fleet of dreaded carriers of the skull and crossbones!

A former pirate, John Grimes is made governor of an anarchist's planet and the target of its citizens' assassination plans

John Grimes' career as a space pirate has ended, he faces his toughest assignment yet. He has been made governor of the anarchist's own planet. His first task is to stay alive with a whole world plotting his murder!

Back on Earth with Shirl and Darleen from New Alice, John Grimes is off on a new mission. Giant golden creatures and accusations of witchcraft are all part of A. Bertram Chandler's last completed novel.