Beyond The Galactic Rim

The Rim World #4

by A. Bertram Chandler

A journey to the Rim Worlds takes you straight to the edge of the unknown or right to the gaping void of the abyss. Out there you're beyond the borders, hovering between the warped contours of troubled space and time...
Captain Clavering bought his ship on a lottery win. Now he's holed up on the dismal planet of Lorn filling in the time on a chemical-blasted airstrip waiting for a contract. Somewhere there must be a newly colonized planet needing charters or some threatened world that needs evacuating. He'd risk anything for money in the bank - even a dodgy landing on the gas-blasted plains of Eblis, if the Rim Runners fancy paying hard cash for an expedition to hell...

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912–6 June 1984) was an Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Paul T. Sherman, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M.

He was born in Aldershot, England. He was a merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troopships. He emigrated to Australia in 1956 and became an Australian citizen. He commanded various ships in the Australian and New Zealand merchant navies, and was the last master of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne as the law required that it have an officer on board while it was laid up waiting to be towed to China to be broken up.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

An anthology of short stories. Forbidden Planet has Grimes as Astronautical Superintendent for Rim Runners. Captain Clavering of Sally Ann is looking for charter and there is none but then there is a group of scientists wanting to go to Eblis and their ship is disabled so the Sally Ann takes them and Clavering gets an idea to set up a tourist camp on the planet so the ship will have work transporting tourists. (this takes place right before Contraband in Space) Wet Paint takes place a century before Grimes is born and Raul is a painter who brings animals he paints to life. He is taken to Earth. The Man Who Could Not Stop is a criminal who cannot stop committing crimes even though he gets caught every time and the punishment escalates. This time he is shanghaied by Captain Christopher along with other men who cannot be rehabilitated to crew a ship going into The Outside. The Key lead characters are Charles Merrill and Halvorsen a rich man searching for the Key. Unconnected to Grimes but Halvorsen was mentioned in Nebula Alert. He wants a Captain for his yacht Starmaid and Commodore Grimes didn't have a man to spare. Thermolyae is on Lorn for repairs to her tube plates so this book is right after The Rim of Space and before The Ship From Outside. The Key is the meaning of the Universe. They find the answer and don't like it.