Editor(s): Asimov, Isaac, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G Waugh
Publisher: Fawcett Crest (USA)
ISBN: 0-449-21400-1
Publication Date: 1988
Flying Saucers 1988
Short Story
A Bertram Chandler's most famous character is John Grimes, a sort of interstellar Horatio Hornblower, who plies his trade next to the big dark of interjacent space at the edge of our galaxy. How does Chandler keep his enthusiasm for such a series protaginist, so that every new advendture will be fresh and exciting? As the story below suggests, it isn't easy.