A. Bertram Chandler
By the Author
Frontier of the Dark
The Mannschenn Drive was the gateway to the stars, but it had one unfortunate site effect: Traveling faster than light, mankind reverted to the bestial…
The Sea Beasts
They came in armies from under the sea - they possessed an intelligence and cunning beyond any human. These incredible tales were dismissed as the…
Contraband from Otherspace
A deadly cargo that threatens to sheer through the fabric of reality, like a knife through soft butter.
To Keep The Ship
John Grimes falls into the clutches of terrorists. Its going to talk all his efforts to keep his precious golden ship. (Especially as it is…
Kelly Country
There was a Ned Kelly. He lived and breathed and fought for what he believed to be right - according to the historians. According to…
The Gateway to Never
John Grimes is stranded on a Hell Planet! Another adventure with the pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes.
The Anarch Lords
His wild career as a space pirate ended, Grimes faced his toughest assignment - he was "punished" by being made governor of the anarchists' own…
Matilda's Stepchildren
John Grimes, owner of the deep space pinnace Little Sister, could not be too fussy about who he carried. Fenalla Pruin, the muckraking reporter, was…
The Wild Ones
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…
The Alternate Martians
A space expedition to Mars find themselves in the worlds of H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Otis Adelbert Kline.
The Road to the Rim
Meet John Grimes at the very beginning of a career that will lead him to fame and glory out at the edge of the galaxy,…
Spartan Planet
John Grimes arrives on the forgotten planet Sparta, where a birth machine produces only men generation after generation. The strangely shaped 'men' on his ship…
The Rim Gods
Gods! Dragons! Fairies! Frog Princess! Knights! and much more. John Grimes faces them all.
Catch the Star Winds
Unable to exceed the speed of light, he found ways around the law of nature, twisting space and time to his bidding. But the lure…
The Hard Way Up
A selection of John Grimes short stories including: With Good Intentions The Subtracter The Tin Messiah The Sleeping Beauty The Wandering Buoy The Mountain Movers…
The Inheritors
John Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants.
The Big Black Mark
A pivotal time in the career of John Grimes. A fateful journey in the vessel Discovery, bearing an uncanny kinship to the legendary vessel the…
The Broken Cycle
Being lost in space was no new experience to John Grimes, whose career as an interstellar officer had brought him into many such dilemmas. But…
Star Courier
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…
Star Loot
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…
The Last Amazon
Originally, Sparta was an all-male planet - an all-male population with everything that implies: babies - male babies only - produced by the so-called Birth…
When the Dream Dies
ALAN KEMP HAD A DREAM FEW SPACEMEN EVER SAW COME TRUE. BUT IN THE RIM WORLD ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE... Alan Kemp was a man obsessed.…
Empress of Outer Space
Her Imperial Highness Empress Irene is in trouble. She needs to prevent the take over of the universe by the power hungry Mortimer Jones .…
Up to the Sky in Ships
Up to the Sky in Ships contains seven undeservedly obscure stories by A. Bertram Chandler, including "Chance Encounter", the first story in which John Grimes…
The Far Traveler
The Far Traveler was hardly the sort of starship to use in the study of lost space colonies. Lost colonies were likely to be desperate,…
To Prime the Pump
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…
The Way Back
Lost in space...lost in time. There can be no more terrifying situation for any spaceman to be in, and such was the problem when Commodore…
Alternate Orbits
"When Kinsolving's Planet crosses your path, beware!" Commodore John Grimes would have done well to heed this warning. But the evil magic of Kinsolving draws…
Bring Back Yesterday
HAUNTED BY THE PAST, JOHN PETERSEN WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO TURN BACK THE CLOCK...OR WOULD HE? When Lightning blasts off without him, Second Officer John…
Nebula Alert
The Iralians were humanoid and techically free citizens of the Galactic Empire. But as slaves they were prized above all others, for they had the…
Into the Alternate Universe
Rim ghosts are real! Intruders from alternate universes appearing where the fabric of space is thin. Sonya and John Grimes find themselves in an alternate…
The Dark Dimensions
Commodore John Grimes was finally getting his space wings back. On his old ship, Faraway Quest, Grimes was to venture forth to the very Rim…
The Rim of Space
Derek Calver touches down on Lorn and is determined to join the Rim Runners to explore desolate planets. He joins the crew of Lorn Lady…
The Ship From Outside
The reward for rescuing Thermopylae is finally paid, and Calver and his shipmates from Lorn Lady purchase a ship and rename her The Outsider. Two…
Space Mercenaries
Her ex-Imperial Highness of Outer Space had developed a conscience. With a well-armed space cruiser on her hands, she didn't want to sell it to…
The Hamelin Plague
It began with a few small items in the newspapers - dead dogs and cats, a mutilated child, a series of unexplained fires. Then suddenly…
The Bitter Pill
To Paul Clayton, obscure shipping clerk, his forty-fifth birthday was not an occasion for celebration. It meant the achievement of status of Senior Citizen, and…
The Coils of Time
Dr. Henshaw had created what he thought was a time travel machine and he had sent guinea pigs through it. But now he needed a…
The Deep Reaches of Space
Is he George Whitley, a twentieth-century writer of science fiction - or Peter Quinn, Second Officer of the interstellar liner Lode Maiden? An injection of…
Beyond the Galactic Rim
A journey to the Rim Worlds takes you straight to the edge of the unknown or right to the gaping void of the abyss. Out…