SFBC
Cover by Alan Pollack
Novels
- The Last Amazon
- The Wild Ones
- Catch the Star Winds
Short Stories
- Grimes at Glenrowan
- Grimes and the Great Race
- Grimes Among the Gourmets
- Grimes and the Odd Gods
- Grimes and the Jailbirds
- Chance Encounter
Dedication
None
Published Editions
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Science Fiction Book Club, (US), 2004
The Last Amazon
Some years ago, John Grimes opened up the lost colony
of Sparta, an all-male planet, to the galaxy. Now he’s back,
newly command-certified and waiting for his ship Sister Sue to arrive,
and he’s pressed into service again. For the new Spartan government
is far from harmonious. One faction resents the influx of women and
wants to return to the glory days of a male-only world. Purists want
a society modeled on ancient Greece, where women were subjugated. But
when his friend the Archon is kidnapped by a gang of militant females
whom the authorities insist were men, Grimes suspects something more
insidious is afoot….
The Wild Ones
A colony world of religious fanatics, New Salem is
famous for the animal furs it exports. Grimes isn’t surprised
this unsavory trade is run by his old nemesis Drongo Kane, for the
fur-bearers may be intelligent. Landing on this god-fearing planet—where
lewdness, smoking and modern technology are outlawed—Grimes knows
he’s in for trouble. For in addition to Shirl and Darleen, two
battling babes of kangaroo descent, he has brought along his latest
toy, a sexy new Japanese robomaid with a mind of her own….
Catch the Star Winds
Unable to exceed the speed of light, Commodore
Grimes found a way around it. Now he has recruited the crew of a ramshackle
tramp for the shake-down cruise of his strange new “lightjammer”—the
first solar sailing spaceship with an anti-matter drive. But Flying
Cloud’s mechanic—Grimes’ own niece—still dreams
of attaining FTL speeds, and soon the crew finds themselves hurtling
from one alternate world to another.