 
        
        
            Baen Books
        
        
            Cover by Stephen Hickman
        
     
    
        
            In this volume
        
            - The Road to the Rim
- To Prime the Pump
- The Hard Way Up
- The Broken Cycle
            Dedication
        
            None
        
        
            Published Editions
        
            - Baen Books, (US), March 2011, Paperback, ISBN:978-1-43913421-4 
- Baen Books, (US), March 2011, eBook, SKU: 9781439134214 
 
    
        
            The Story
        
        
            John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic
            history, but right now he's a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that
            he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy.
        
            - The Road to the Rim—meet Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey
                Service; fresh out of the Academy-and as green as they come. 
- To Prime the Pump—El Dorado is a planet with a pressing problem: the men
                are infertile, cause unknown, and the women want someone to Do Something! Not quite
                the problem young John Grimes expected to deal with... 
- The Hard Way Up—a collection of seven tales of John Grime's adventures,
                meeting danger and winning glory out at the rim of the Galaxy. 
 
    
        
            - The Broken Cycle—John Grimes never intended to get lost in space, let alone
                being lost with a very attractive policewoman who's all business. And he really
                never expected to run into an entity who claims to be a god and has a garden of
                Eden ready and waiting for the pair. 
            Three novels and a story collection, all in one volume of space adventure.