A. BERTRAM CHANDLER

His wild career as a space pirate ended, Grimes faced his toughest assignment - he was "punished" by being made governor of the anarchists' own planet!  John Grimes, living legend of the spaceways, had been in and out of some cosmic catastrophes but this threatened to reach his luck's ultimate breaking point!

An influx of planetary refugees had made that world a paradise of cheap labor and the original anarchist colonists had become such masters of wealth that no mere outsider could hope to dictate "law and order" to them.  They had their own ideas which included slavery, treachery, and utter villainy.

Grimes' first task as governor would be simply to stay alive with a whole world plotting his murder!

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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.

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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.

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DRAGONS? FAIRIES? FROG PRINCES?
SIR DOMINIK FLANDRY?

In a John Grimes Rim Adventure?  Strange things happen out where the stellar medium grows thin, out where it is difficult to say if you remain within the galaxy or you're falling through the intergalactic void.  Add to that strangeness an Outsider ship filled with technology so far in advance of the human as to appear magical, and the catalytic presence of Commodore John Grimes, and anything can happen - anything at all.

A. BERTRAM
CHANDLER

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, eccentric, and otherwise unappreciative.  And 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 that golden vessel's captain.  A captain in name only because nobody could talk back to Big Sister or the haughty beauty who owned everything aboard.  But Grimes was a man of many resources and lost space colonies were places that did not observe the civilized rules.  You could be sure therefore that the man known as the Commodore Hornblower of Outer Space would be likely to come through okay - even if the ladies - mechanical and physical - never expected him to!

DRONGO KANE
NEVER BROKE THE LAW

He was a cunning, ruthless opportunist who paid when he had to and stole when he could - but never when there was the slightest chance of getting caught.  That's what had John Grimes worried: here was Kane directly under the watchful eyes -and guns - of a Federation Survey vessel, openly engaging in kidnapping and trafficking in human flesh!

Despite the fact that the beautiful inhabitants of this Lost Colony faced a fate worse than death, a more cautious - or less gallant - officer would do nothing - secure in the knowledge that regardless of appearances there would be some loophole that placed the Law squarely on Kane's side.  But Grimes, being Grimes, would have to act - knowing full well that to "interfere with a merchantman on her lawful occasions" meant a blasted career... and knowing too that Drongo Kane never broke the law...

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John Grimes, owner of the deep space pinnace Little Sister, could not afford to be fussy about whom he carried.  But there were compensations, for if his ship had not been chartered to take Fenella Pruin, muckraking reporter, to exclusive New Venusberg he would never have been able to visit that fabulous pleasure planet.

But there was to be little pleasure in it for him.  Among the visitors was a Shaara princess who owed him vengeance.  The planet's authorities were after Fenella's blood to prevent her snooping.  Had it not been for the boomerang throwing abilities of two sexy dancers from New Alice, the spaceman and the journalist would have been sacrificed to make a Roman holiday.  The spectator sports of the very rich and very depraved involve a high mortality rate among the players....

A. BERTRAM CHANDLER

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!

It's a new far-space novel by A. Bertram Chandler and one of his best!

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A. BERTRAM
CHANDLER

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!

Publishers Weekly declared that John Grimes is "science fiction's answer to Horatio Hornblovver."

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Although this was a low point in the ever-changing space career of the legendary John Grimes, it was not without its surprising moments.  Between jobs, between loyalties, Grimes was owner and pilot of a small auxiliary vessel whose principal oddity was that it was made of gold.  But precious metal or not, Grimes was running errands with it.

Until he fell into the clutches of terrorists.  Susie and her comrades had a Cause and it was going to take all his efforts to keep the one thing he had to have - his ship.

Especially since they left the ship infested with a constantly increasing horde of mini-Susies - vicious little homunculi that looked exactly like their sexy prototype except that they were hungry, sharp-toothed, and their only Cause was to eat Grimes alive!

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CHANDLER

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 Grimes’ Faraway Quest broke free from the mysterious Kinsolving’s Planet.

Because the universe was vast and they had been out beyond the Galactic Lens.  Because time is infinite and they had slipped beyond their own epoch.  Because in whatever universe they were in they could raise no etheric word, no telepathic beacon, no other star vessel.

But for John Grimes, a veritable Commodore Hornblower of the future space seas, there had to be a way back.  The first step was to locate Earth, the launching place for all humanity.

But Earth turned out to be legend and myth and faith - and Grimes' rebellious crew were to enact roles already fabled before they were all born.

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