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In five classic tales, Federation Navy Academy fledgling John Grimes is a trouble-magnet when he goes up against legal piracy, deadly fertility rites, a brutal all-male society and more.

Table of Contents:

5 - The Road to the Rim - [John Grimes - 1] - (1967) - novel
103 - To Prime the Pump - [John Grimes - 2] - (1971) - novel
229 - The Hard Way Up - [John Grimes - 3] - (1972) - collection
361 - Spartan Planet - [John Grimes - 5] - (1968) - novel (variant of False Fatherland)
489 - The Inheritors - [John Grimes - 6] - (1972) - novel

John Grimes: Tramp Captain

John Grimes: SFBC Set: Book 3

A. Bertram Chandler

One of the Six Omnibus Volumes that collects the complete John Grimes stories by A. Bertram Chandler.

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9 - To Keep the Ship - [John Grimes - 10] - (1978) - novel
137 - Matilda's Stepchildren - [John Grimes - 11] - (1979) - novel
289 - Star Loot - [John Grimes - 12] - (1980) - novel
513 - The Anarch Lords - [John Grimes - 13] - (1981) - novel

John Grimes: Reserve Commodore

John Grimes: SFBC Set: Book 4

A. Bertram Chandler

A compendium of nine A. Bertram Chandler Stories

Table of Contents:

1 - The Last Amazon - [John Grimes - 14] - (1984) - novel
167 - The Wild Ones - [John Grimes - 15] - (1984) - novel
307 - Grimes at Glenrowan - [John Grimes] - (1978) - short story
323 - Grimes and the Great Race - [John Grimes] - (1980) - novelette
345 - Grimes Among the Gourmets - [John Grimes] - (1978) - short story
359 - Grimes and the Odd Gods - [John Grimes] - (1983) - novelette
383 - Grimes and the Jailbirds - [John Grimes] - (1984) - short story
399 - Chance Encounter - [John Grimes] - (1959) - short story
415 - Catch the Star Winds - [John Grimes - 16] - (1969) - novel

John Grimes: Rim Runner

John Grimes: SFBC Set: Book 5

A. Bertram Chandler

Further adventures on the edge of space and time!

Once a spacer, always a spacer. Now practical, hard-headed Grimes is not the sort to believe in ghosts. But he's willing to give psychics a chance when shapely Sonya Verrill, a commander in the Federation Survey Service, proposes a ghost-hunting expedition in the sector around Kingsolving's Planet. Out where the fabric of space wears thin, ships have encountered Rim Ghosts - apparitions of craft and crewmates from alternate universes. When Grimes organizes a seance to make contact, their ship is yanked Into the Alternate Universe, and their only hope of getting home gain may lie in a lost relic - a sleeper ship from the first age of space exploration. After their wild ghost ride, Grimes and Sonya embark on a wholly different adventure: marriage. But running their own little shipping company takes a back seat to danger when a distress call leads the pair to an alien ship from an alternate universe - a ship carrying Contraband from Otherspace - mutant rats who evolved to rule their universe... and threaten to break through into ours.

In The Rim Gods, Grimes is drawn into four perilous adventures, when a ship full of religious fanatics uses a psionic to summon God, when a rogue Rim Worlder tries to sell advanced weaponry to the robber barons of Tangaroa, when trouble in the form of a predatory starfish threatens to ruin the economy of Mellise, and when an impossible planet appears out of nowhere - a world where dragons, fairies, and sleeping beauties are real. Another visit to Kingsolving's Planet, where the boundaries between reality and surreality are almost non-existent, finds The Commander at Sea. For he is whisked to a continuum in which fictional characters exist, and he is surprised to meet Sherlock Holmes, Lady Chatterly, Tarzan and Jane, and... A. Bertram Chandler?

Table of Contents:

1 - Into the Alternate Universe - [John Grimes - 17] - (1964) - novel
119 - Contraband from Otherspace - [John Grimes - 18] - (1967) - novel
225 - The Rim Gods - [John Grimes - 20] - (1968) - novel
359 - The Commodore at Sea - [John Grimes - 21] - (1971) - collection (variant of Alternate Orbits)
363 - Hall of Fame - [John Grimes] - (1969) - novelette (variant of The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars)
395 - The Sister Ships - [John Grimes] - (1971) - novelette (variant of Sister Ships)
426 - The Man Who Sailed the Sky - [John Grimes] - (1971) - novelette
459 - The Rub - [John Grimes] - (1970) - novelette