MEET JOHN GRIMES

at the very beginning of a career that will lead him to fame and glory out at the edge of the galaxy, out where the laws of men are nonexistent, and those of nature itself are sometimes tenuous.

Someday Grimes will be a Commodore in the secessionist Rim Worlds Navy, but for now he is merely a very junior Lieutenant in another space navy entirely, that of the Federation. If he keeps his nose clean, one day he can be an Admiral in that Service, all he has to do is follow regulations regardless of the consequences, and obey orders regardless of whether they are right or wrong—and he is determined to do just that.

But being John Grimes, he will find it a more difficult task than he expects-especially when he must turn a blind eye to the piratical acts of the Waldegrenese Navy, or ignore the plight of a beauteous damsel in distress. That's why, although he doesn't know it yet, he is already on 

THE ROAD TO THE RIM

The Strange Mission of the Space Cruiser Ares

Lieut. John Grimes, officer on the space ship Ares, arrives at the planet El Dorado with his shipmates on a mission of mercy.

The men and women of that fabulous planet, who have almost but not quite achieved immortality, are in immediate danger of extinction. The men are infertile and the ladies are getting out of hand

Lieut. Grimes and his cohorts, who only want to help, are suddenly in deadly peril.

A selection of John Grimes short stories including.

With Good Intentions
The Subtracter
The Tin Messiah
The Sleeping Beauty
The Wandering Buoy
The Mountain Movers
What You Know

A WORLD OF MEN

John Grimes arrives on the forgotten planet Sparta, where a birth machine produces only men generation after generation. The strangely shaped 'men' on his ship are having a catastrophic effect.

Being lost in space was no new experience to John Grimes, whose career as an interstellar officer had brought him into many such dilemmas. But being lost inside a colossal alien spacecraft had no precedent.

Complicating the matter was the discovery that the very universe was not their own but an alternate and that their captor seemed to be the omnipotent force of that entire other cosmos.

As Grimes' only companion was the comely policewoman, Una Freeman, the fate that the Alien God selected for them required the creation of a Garden of Eden. But there were two serpents in this one—both of them bicycles!

It's a weird, wild romp in space-time—one of the most surprising adventures of the man that has been called
the Horatio Hornblower of Space.

DRONGO KANE NEVER BROKE THE LAW

He was a cunning, ruthless opportunist who paid when he had to and stole when he could—but never when there was the slightest chance of getting caught. That's what had John Grimes worried: here was Kane directly under the watchful eyes—and guns—of a Federation Survey vessel, openly engaging in kidnapping and trafficking in human flesh!

Despite the fact that the beautiful inhabitants of this Lost Colony faced a fate worse than death, a more cautious-or less gallant—officer would do nothing-secure in the knowledge that regardless of appearances there would be some loophole that placed the Law squarely on Kane's side. But Grimes, being Grimes, would have to act—knowing full well that to "interfere with a merchantman on her lawful occasions" meant a blasted career...and knowing too that Drongo Kane never broke the law...

ADRIFT BETWEEN THE STARS

The fabulous career of John Grimes from ensign in the Galactic Federation to admiral of the Rim Worlds has been chronicled over the years in dozens of gripping novels and short stories. But the pivotal account of Grimes' career—the big black mark on his service record that forced him to change his loyalties had never been recorded.

 This then, in a full-length novel, is the key story of Commander Grimes and of the voyage of the Discovery— a spaceship which bore an uncanny kinship to a certain legendary vessel called the Bounty.