Grimes Once Again Plies the Seas of Galactic Adventure!

If galactic space travel is going to be anything like sailing the seas, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. After all, Chandler was a life-time merchant marine officer. If it involved the sea, Chandler had been there and done that.

He was also a friend and confidante of legendary SF editor, John W. Campbell—who famously said of Chandler: "he writes his stories in the middle of a hurricane with his typewriter lashed to his desk."

When you hear something like that, you've got to know that this is the good stuff!

Here are the tales of John Grimes' action-packed merchantman and courier years. After moving on from the Federation Survey Service, Grimes tries his hand at leading a private life, and finds he likes being his own man. The only problem is, his solid gold ship The Far Traveller has a (very stubborn and very feminine) mind of its own — and a penchant for getting Grimes into the worse sort of interplanetary pickles!

Here it is, the entire "Captain John Grimes–Far Traveller Courier"saga, all collected in one e-volume and available from Baen Books' Webscriptions (www.webscription.net). This amazing collection includes:

 
The Far Traveller, with short stories:
    "The Long Fall"
    "The Sleeping Beast"
    "Journey's End"
Star Courier
To Keep the Ship
Matilda's Stepchildren
Star Loot
The Anarch Lords
The Last Amazon
The Wild Ones

The megavolume will be released September 20^th, 2007, and will be available in the reader-friendly, unencrypted formats Webscriptions is known for. No need to track down the crumbling remains of dead tree—this is the alternate reality where Grime's Mannschenn Drive (the FTL device that moves a ship ahead in space while traveling astern in time) throws the Chandler novels into a digital future!

For the next three months, the complete works will go for $20. As always, we'll let the math do the selling. Okay, we will add the one rather salient detail: IT'S ELECTRONIC; NO SHIPPING FEES! Then, AFTER the three months is up, the e-volume "dissolves" and we'll offer the individual "Rim World" ebook titles for $4 each. (Still a great deal, of course!)