Number six in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Contains Chandler classic novels and collections The Gateway to Never, The Dark Dimensions, and The Way Back. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim. Number seven in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series:“SF’s answer to Horatio Hornblower.” —*Publishers Weekly “As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds.” —Analog “[Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed [Chandler’s] space operas are among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . .” —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction*** Number six in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Contains Chandler classic novels and collections The Gateway to Never, The Dark Dimensions, and The Way Back. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim. Number seven in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series:“SF’s answer to Horatio Hornblower.” —*Publishers Weekly “As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds.” —Analog “[Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed [Chandler’s] space operas are among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . .” —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction***

Down into the tortuous 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 human guinea pig to test it with.Christopher Wilkonsen thought the whole idea was absurd, until a book that had been sent through the machine came back with a thumbprint of his lost sweetheart Vanessa on

It’s Not Human! It began with a few small items in the newspapers—dead dogs and cats, a mutilated child, a series of unexplained fires. Then, suddenly, it exploded into a full-sized catastrophe. Huge mutants—half rat, half man—began to take over the world, stealing children for laves and destroying while cities and their populations. Only a few people escaped, among them Tim Barrett, his wife Jane, and a handful of survivors. Alone on the high seas in a small ship, they set off to find the island where Dr. Theodore Piper ahd been experimenting with a sonic death ray. They knew Dr. Piper was their only hope for personal and world survival—if he was still alive . . if the King Rats hadn’t forced him to serve their evil purpose . . . and if he could find a way to stop the spreading horror of invasion.

bA Space Fantasy Filled with HorrorThe Mannschenn Drive was the gateway to the stars, but it had one unfortunate site effect . . .Traveling faster than light, mankind reverted to the bestial form of his own legendary nightmare: the werewolf. And space only feed the creatures they'd become. The lycanthropic horror that the full moon once called forth from the soul's depths, now no longer howls at the moon but soars far beyond it.

The fifth omnibus edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler’s John Grimes books and stories in this renowned SF space-faring saga.  Contains Into the Alternate Universe, Contraband from Otherspace, The Rim Gods (1969)—a story collection, The Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)—four novellas. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim. Number five in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:Into the Alternate Universe (1964)Contraband from Otherspace (1967)The Rim Gods (1969)--story collectionThe Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)—four  novelets About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series:“SF’s answer to Horatio Hornblower.” —*Publishers Weekly “As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds.” —Analog “[Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed [Chandler’s] space operas are among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . .” —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction***

SUMMARY: The second in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! ClassicStar Trekmeets 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 Grimesrs" 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 shipThe Far Travellerhas 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,Matildars"s Stepchildren,Star Loot,The Anarch Lords,The Last Amazon, andThe 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 ofAstounding Science Fiction