A. Bertram Chandler

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1961
  • Latest Book:
    January 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Rim World

1 - The Rim of Space (1961)
2 - Beyond the Galactic Rim (1963)
3 - The Ship From Outside (1963)
4 - Rendezvous on a Lost World // When the Dream Dies (1961)
5 - Bring Back Yesterday (1961)
6 - Catch the Star Winds (1969)

The Saga of John Grimes

1 - Road to the Rim (Nov-1967)
2 - To Prime the Pump (1971)
2 - The Inheritors // Gateway to Never (1978)
5 - Upon a Sea of Stars (Apr-2014)
6 - Gateway to Never (May-2015)
The Wild Ones (Apr-1985)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Bring Back Yesterday

    • / Science Fiction
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    Rim World - 5

    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 Petersen is finished as far as Trans-Galactic Clippers are concerned. Branded a deserter, stranded ...

  • Rendezvous on a Lost World // When the Dream Dies

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    Rim World - 4

    THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAYHis was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man -- driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three co...

  • The Rim of Space

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    Rim World - 1

    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 and sets forth for Mellise, inhabited by intelligent amphibians; for Groller, where the natives have just qualifie...

  • Beyond the Galactic Rim

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    Rim World - 2

    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 there you're beyond the borders, hovering between the warped contours of troubled space and time...Captain Clavering bought his sh...

  • The Ship From Outside

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    Rim World - 3

    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 years are spent as a charter to Rim Runners, then six months tramping, before Sonya Verrill reappears an...

  • Into the alternate universe

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    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 universe....

  • Road to the Rim

    The Saga of John Grimes - 1

    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, out where the laws of men are nonexistent, and those of nature itself are sometimes tenuous.Someday Grimes will be a Commodore ...

  • Catch the Star Winds

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    Rim World - 6

    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 of FTL speeds could would not be forgotten...and the crew of the Flying Cloud - casts-offs from the great civilisations ...

  • To Prime the Pump

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    The Saga of John Grimes - 2

    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 to save them from deadly peril....



  • 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 Bounty. The big black mark on his service record....

  • The Inheritors // Gateway to Never

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    The Saga of John Grimes - 2

    John Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants....

  • Matilda's Stepchildren

    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 Venusber...

  • 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 being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.Complicating the matter was the discovery th...

  • 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 been the victim of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under strange masters and on strange ships, but he had ...

  • 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 planet! John Grimes, living legend of the spaceways, had been in and out of some cosmic catastrophes b...

  • Commodore at Sea

  • 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 Grimes' Faraway Quest broke free from the mysterious Kinsolving's Planet.Because the universe was vast and they...

  • Up to the Sky in Ships - In and Out of Quandry

    Ace "Double" format with the author's contribution bound opposite each other. The Chandler section contains a sampling of his work, including a hard-to-find first Grimes story and a story from his alternate history of Australia. Hoffman's wide range ...

  • 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 infected with mini-Susies who were sharp-toothed, hungry and ready to eat him alive.)...



  • 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 the Interstellar Federation - from triumph to disaster - and ultimately becoming the most famous of the...

  • 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, eccentric and otherwise unappreciative. And The Far Traveler was a rich woman's toy, constructed of gold and direc...

  • 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 form of his own legendary nightmare-the lycanthropic horror that the full moon once called forth f...

  • 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 Machine from an almost unending supply of fertilized ova brought by Sparta's founding fath...

  • The Wild Ones

    The Saga of John Grimes

    They called the robomaid "Clockwork Kitty" until she informed them of her right name. She was a triumph of Japan's far-future robotics industry and she was a present to John Grimes as he set out aboard Sister Sue for a voyage to the planet called New...

  • Kelly Country

  • The Hairy Parents

    in Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #6

  • 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 with it several dubious privileges - not least of which was voluntary euthanasia, facilit...

  • It Started With Sputnik

    The first living creature in space was a dog, who knew the vast repercussions of that act.ExcerptThat was the year of the satellites, of the Sputniks. That was the year of the Space Dog. That was the year it all started. We didn't know what it was th...

  • First Command

    The #2 omni edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler’s John Grimes books, with eight legendary adventure novels in one volume. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy...



  • 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 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 Wilkinson thought the whole idea was absurd, until a book that had been sent th...

  • Glory Planet

    Mystery and intrigue on the waterways of the planet Venus

    The Venus colony was settled and thriving, when suddenly all communication from Earth ceased. No messages. No transports. Nothing.

    Insistent that science had lead their home i...

  • 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 it exploded into a full sized catastrophe.Huge mutants - half rat, half man - began to take over the world, steali...

  • 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 ravings of madmen by marine expert Peter Hollows, and his lovely assistant Sally Brent. But then they a...

  • The Ultimate Vice

  • Upon a Sea of Stars

    The Saga of John Grimes - 5

    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...

  • Gateway to Never

    The Saga of John Grimes - 6

    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 com...

  • Alternate Orbits

    Kinsolving's planet on the rim of space where the fabric of time is stretched almost to bursting. Should John Grimes be surprised to meet…Sherlock Holmes? Lady Chatterly? Tarzan and Jane? A. Bertram Chandler?...

  • The Rim Gods

    John Grimes, astronautical superintendent of Rim Runners and commanding officer of the Rim Worlds Naval Reserve, was tired of being a desk-bound space commodore. So when the chance came for him to do a little personal astronautical trouble-shooting, ...



  • 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 . . ....

  • The Hard Way Up

    A selection of John Grimes short stories including:With Good IntentionsThe SubtracterThe Tin MessiahThe Sleeping BeautyThe Wandering BuoyThe Mountain MoversWhat You Know...

  • 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 have a catastrophic effect....

  • Contraband from Otherspace

    A deadly cargo that threatens to sheer through the fabric of reality, like a knife through soft butter....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A. Bertram Chandler has published 43 books.

A. Bertram Chandler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Contraband from Otherspace, was published in January 2016.

The first book by A. Bertram Chandler, The Rim of Space, was published in January 1961.

Yes. A. Bertram Chandler has 2 series.
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