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October 22, 2006The Rim WorldsAmong a bunch of used sci-fi paperbacks I picked up recently on eBay is an Ace Double by A. Bertram Chandler containing on one side, The Ship From Outside and on the other, a collection of novelettes titled, Beyond the Galactic Rim. Both are part of the author's Rim World series and this is my first encounter with it. It won't be my last. I read both books yesterday. Old as these stories are, they're fun to read, humorous, and present a wonderful scenario of life out in the boondocks of space. I will very much be hunting for more from this series and I recommend it highly to sci-fi fans. Comments
Well as John Grimes would say "Welcome to liberty hall, where you can spit on the matt and call the cat a bastard" I read my first John Grimes story in the late 60's maybe early 70's and enjoyed them all. Your right, a different spin on space operas. Ted Posted by: Ted Riedel at October 22, 2006 12:49 PMAnother great thing about the Rim series is that Chandler wrote so many books set there. I have also been reading them from the 60's and have managed to collect about 20 of them. Every year I still reread one or two. Chandler was a merchant marine captain and his experience shows. Posted by: Ralphe at October 22, 2006 02:16 PMTed: Another thing I like about them is that they're surprisingly "adult" for something written back in those puritanical sci-fi days. I would never have thought Ace Books would, in 1963, allow such lurid adulterous behavior from Captain Derek Calver. Ralphe: You've just made my day! I didn't know there were so many of them. Guess I better transfer a pile of money to my PayPal account and head to eBay. I'm going to want them all. Posted by: Jeff Soyer at October 22, 2006 08:39 PMYou might also want to check out the Science Fiction Book Club website. They have the Grimes stories collected in a series of hardbounds that will long outlast any paperbacks. Posted by: Mark Rosenbaum at October 22, 2006 08:49 PMI'll join the rest in endorsing Bert Chandler's "Rimworlds" yarns, I don't know if I've got "everything he ever wrote" but I do have most of it and enjoy going through them every year or so. they're also a short course in "strine". As you may have already figured out in Chandler's future, space, or at least its outback belongs to the Aussies. I've been reading Chandler for ages and have most of the Rim Worlds novels. Someone (ACE, I think) re-published these in volumns containing 2 books each. Most of these I bought from Edge Books in Louisiana. Disclosure: I have no financial interest in their company, but I have bought a lot of books from them. The URL is: http://www.edgebooks.com/ Posted by: Paul Roberts at October 24, 2006 10:00 AMWelcome to the rim worlds and go to www.bertramchandler.com for a very interesting background on Chandler. My first encounter with John Grimes was in the 60's and I have every Grimes story published. I have read every one at least twice and will read them all again. His non-Grimes stores are great as well. Ian Posted by: Ian Black at October 24, 2006 11:10 AMOh, Your first encounter with Commodore Grimes. Hang on for the ride. It will get wild and wooly. Mate! Posted by: jmiked at October 26, 2006 04:11 AMthe comment input form disappears. Your comments are welcome. You don't need to enter a URL and you don't need a "valid" email address, either. Note though that MT Blacklist is installed to flag suspiciously spam-like strings. Unfortunately, because of the bastard spammers, the strings "google.com" and "yahoo.com" (even in your email address) are currently banned as well. So are strings such as "cialis" (a common spam) which rules out words such as "socialism". Try putting a hyphan in a word like that. By Golly, you're reading an archived post. Click Here to head to the main page and read current stuff...Into science fiction? Check out my group blog novel, Colony: Alchibah. See the reader's guide there for first-timer tips. |
