Editor(s): Harry Harrison
Publisher: Doubleday (USA)
Publication Date: 1970
The Year 2000 1970
Novelete
A Bertram Chandler specializes in sea stories thinly disguised as science fiction, and says of himself that he is either a poor but honest writer who has to go to sea to earn a crust, or poor but honest mariner who has to write to earn the butter and jam to put on the same crust. He is best known, perhaps, for his Rim Worlds series - essentially Space Opera with a markedly Antipodean flavor.