The Broken Cycle

Book Details

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Author(s):

A Bertram Chandler

First Pub:

1979

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

27 chapters

Internal ID:

13518

Series:

<- The Road to the Rim and The Hard Way Up - Spartan Planet ->

John Grimes*

#4 of 23

John Grimes*

A series of science fiction novels by A Bertrand Chandler. These are set within the Rim Worlds series.

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1) The Road to the Rim
2) To Prime the Pump
3) The Hard Way Up
4) The Broken Cycle
5) Spartan Planet
6) The Inheritors
7) The Big Black Mark
8) The Far Traveler
9) Star Courier
10) To Keep the Ship
11) Matilda's Stepchildren
12) Star Loot
13) The Anarch Lords
14) The Last Amazon
15) The Wild Ones
16) Catch the Star Winds
17) Into the Alternate Universe
18) Contraband from Otherspace
19) The Gateway to Never
20) The Rim Gods
21) Alternate Orbits
22) The Dark Dimensions
23) The Way Back

Copyright:

First Sentence:

John Grimes - although he hated to have to admit it, even to himself - was bored.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"As Adam said to Eve," remarked Grimes quietly, "you should have decided that before it was too late."

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Added: 31-Jan-2023

Last Updated: 27-Mar-2023

Publications

02-Oct-1979

DAW Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

02-Oct-1979

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.75

Pages*:

156

Catalog ID:

UE1496

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

13115

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97496-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97496-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Richard Hescox - Cover Artist

A. BERTRAM CHANDLER

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 being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.

Complicating the matter was the discovery that the very universe was not their own but an alternate and that their captor seemed to be the omnipotent force of that entire other cosmos.

As Grimes' only companion was the comely policewoman, Una Freeman, the fate that the Alien God selected for them required the creation of a Garden of Eden. But there were two serpents in this one - both of them bicycles!

Its a weird, wild romp in space-time - one of the most surprising adventures of the man that has been called the Horatio Hornblower of Space.

,b>A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

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Notes and Comments:

First Printing, October 1979
First printing based on the number line

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Author(s)

A Bertram Chandler
Birth: 28 Mar 1912 Aldershot, England, UK
Death: 06 Jun 1984

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