SUMMARY: John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic history, but right now hers"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 Grimers"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 whors"s all business. And he reallynever 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 attractively-priced volume of space adventure.

Number three in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Classic Star Trek meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here are the crowning tales of Grimes' career the Grimes Rim Commodore stories. In these tales, Grimes has found his true calling out on the edge of galactic civilization. He's the sheriff of a realm where pioneer colonies and parallel dimensions overlap, and a starship captain must be prepared for adventure in ALL possible worlds. Includes an astounding (as in, mostly published in Astounding and Analog by legendary editor John W. Campbell) cornucopia of Grimes novels bringing together all previous Commodore Grimes tales in Star Courier, To Keep the Ship, Matilda's Stepchildren, Star Loot.