Series
John Grimes
A. Bertram Chandler · 21 novels · 2 novellas · 24 novelettes · 11 short stories · 6 collections · 1959–2008
A. Bertram Chandler's long-running space opera follows John Grimes across a career that takes him from a junior officer in the Federation's Survey Service to captain of his own tramp trading vessel along the lawless Rim Worlds. Spanning two dozen novels and story collections published from the late 1950s into the 2000s, it's one of the genre's longest-running single-character sagas.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
John Grimes at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s6
- 1960s16
- 1970s31
- 1980s7
- 1990s0
- 2000s4
Shape
21 novels · 2 novellas · 24 novelettes · 11 short stories · 6 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 95% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book55 of 64 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- False Fatherlanddarkest · calmest
- Star Lootbrightest
- The Anarch Lordsmost intense