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The Rim of Space on Audio

Blackstone Audio have release The Rim of Space on Audio as part of A Galaxy Trilogy VOL. 4






















A Bertram ChandlerA (Arthur) Bertram Chandler was born in Aldershot, England in 1912, Chandler sailed the world in every-thing from tramp steamers to troop transports before emigrating to Australia in 1956. Here he commanded merchant vessels under the Australian and New Zealand Flags up to his retirement in 1974.

Up until his death in 1984 he published over 40 science fiction novels and over 200 works of short fiction writing as A Bertram Chandler, George Whitley or Andrew Dunstan. Many of the novels had a nautical theme, with the plot moved from the seas of earth to the ships of space in the future. Many of the stories revolved around the character of John Grimes some times referred to as “Hornblower of Space”. While most stories are set in the future, they also have a distinctly “Australian” theme with places and stories relating back to Australia today.

Chandler was the last master of the aircraft carrier Melbourne. Law required it to have a master aboard for the months while it was laid up and waiting to be towed off to Asia to be broken up for scrap, so in a sense he really was briefly the master of the Australian navy's former flagship. Apparently he had his typewriter aboard, and worked on his novels!

Chandler received four Australian SF "Ditmar" Achievement Awards for his novels. Nearly all of his novels were published in the USA. Two of his short stories 'The Cage' and 'Giant Killer’ are regarded as some of the best SF stories written in the 1950's. He was also very popular in Japan winning the prestigious SEIUN SHO, the premier Science Fiction award. The Japanese editions have some of the best covers of any of the published editions.

Baen Books

Baen Books have released four John Grimes anthologies To the Galactic Rim: The John Grimes Saga, First Command: The John Grimes Saga II, Galactic Courier: The John Grimes Saga III and Ride the Star Winds: The John Grimes Saga IV. These are available as both eBooks and Trade Paperbacks

Prologue Books

Prologue Books have reprinted 8 Novels as eBooks, including the hard to find Glory Planet, now available for the second time since the initial Hard Cover publication. The published novels include Frontier of The Dark, Kelly Country, The Bitter Pill, The Sea Beasts, The Alternate Martians, Glory Planet, The Coils of Time and The Hamelin Plague

Audio Books

There are now 31 Novels available as audio books, including all the John Grimes Novels.  These are all available from audible.com.

Tales From Super-Science Fiction

The short story I'll take over (originally published as by George Whitely) has been published in the anthology Tales from Super-Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg.

Still Running the Rim

Australian Science Fiction Review This article was published in Australian Science Fiction Review (December 1966).

Too right I am - literally and figuratively.

As Master of a vessel engaged upon the trans-Tasman cargo service I seem fated always to load in Australia for ports in the South Island of New Zealand, and the shortest way, in terms of distance, is via the Fouveaux Strait, at the southern extremity of the South Island. And if that’s not rim running it’s about as close as one cart get to it on this planet...

Well, I re-read my article in ASFR 3. It closes with the brave words anent BRING BACK YESTERDAY - ‘Even so, it was the last of the Rim Runner Stories...’ And that dates the article more than somewhat. Perhaps my own laziness has been to blame. Here was I, with my own private empire on the tattered fringe of the Galaxy, inhabited by my own people... As James Elroy Flecker remarked - ‘Seek not excess, God hateth him who roams.’ Lorn, Ultimo, Faraway and Thule may not be Baghdad - but I have yet to find my Samarkand.

Oddly enough, in the later stories Commodore (originally Captain) Grimes has been playing a larger and larger part. I’ve come to like the crusty old bastard. There’s just one thing that I rather resent about him, though. When I had only three rings on my sleeve he had four - and now that I have my four rings he’s sporting the single broad ring of a Commodore. But I’m getting my revenge. In the novel just completed - THE ROAD TO THE RIM - I go back to his early life and hard time as a very newly commissioned Ensign. (That, by the way, is dedicated to Admiral Lord Hornblower, R,N) And in the one that I’m working on now he will tangle with my ex-Empress Irene. It’s too early to say who will cone out on top - but I’d be prepared to bet on Grimes.