Universe X by Alex Ross

Universe X by Alex Ross

The fifth omnibus edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes books and stories in this renowned SF space-faring saga. Contains Into the Alternate Universe, Contraband from Otherspace, The Rim Gods (1969)--a story collection, The Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)--four novellas.

Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim.

Number five in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:

Into the Alternate Universe (1964)
Contraband from Otherspace (1967)
The Rim Gods (1969)--story collection
The Commodore at Sea (a.k.a. Alternate Orbits, 1971)--four novelets

About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series:
SF's answer to Horatio Hornblower. --Publishers Weekly

As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds. --Analog

Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed Chandler's] space operas are among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . . --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Since 1996, Alex Ross has been The New Yorker's music critic. His debut book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Listen to This, his second collection of essays, won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. In 2008, he was designated a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2015, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780785108672
ISBN 10	078510867X
Title	Universe X
Author	Alex Ross
Series	Earth X S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Year published	2002-04-15
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.