Books in series
#1
The Road to the Rim
1967
Ace Double H-29, published with ""The Lost Millennium", by Walt and Leigh Richmond.
Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service: fresh out of the Academy - and as green as they come.
#2
To Prime the Pump
1971
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.
#3
The Hard Way Up
1972
A selection of John Grimes short stories
With Good Intentions
The Subtracter
The Tin Messiah
The Sleeping Beauty
The Wandering Buoy
The Mountain Movers
What You Know
#4
The Broken Cycle
1975
1979, mass market paperback edition, DAW Books, NY. 156 pages. Science fiction novel featuring John Grimes, an interstellar officer. Space hijinks,with "the Horatio Hornblower of space."
#5
Spartan Planet
1968
And they named the planet Sparta. Long ago the humans had settled this planet - too long ago for anyone to remember.
Slowly the civilization had developed, and now it was complete. A civilization of war and violence. A civilization of crude pleasures. A civilization in which human beings were produced by birth machines - and women were unknown.
It was a civilization whose terrible secret only the doctor-priests knew - a secret that a desperate man named Brasidus decided to penetrate, even at the risk of something worse than death
#6
The Inheritors
1972
John Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants.
#7
The Big Black Mark
1975
The fabulous career of John Grimes from ensign in the Galactic Federation to admiral of the Rim Worlds has been chronicled over the years in dozens of gripping novels and short stories. But the pivotal account of Grimes' career - the big black mark on his service record that forced him to change his loyalties had never been recorded. DAW Books is proud to welcome A. Bertram Chandler to its lists and doubly proud to present that major novel of Grimes, the only character in all space fiction with the scope and depth that Captain Hornblower achieved in the field of sea fiction.
This then, in a full-length novel, is the key story of Commander Grimes and of the voyage of the Discovery - a spaceship which bore an uncanny kinship to a certain legendary vessel called the Bounty.
Author
A. Bertram Chandler
Author · 42 books
Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912–6 June 1984) was an Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M. He was born in Aldershot, England. He was a merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troopships. He emigrated to Australia in 1956 and became an Australian citizen. He commanded various ships in the Australian and New Zealand merchant navies, and was the last master of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne as the law required that it have an officer on board while it was laid up waiting to be towed to China to be broken up.
