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Thrilling Science Fiction December 1972 - The Last CitizenMr Chandler always manages to add an extra "something" to his stories; an emotional scope that few authors achieve. He does this at times with a single phrase; a lone sentence. So we ask you - please don't read ahead of yourself in this story. Leave the last paragraph to the end. |
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10-01-2008
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I have enjoyed the RIM series since the 1960s - and I am ordering the SFBC series to read on my airplane trips. It seems to me that ABC was a good person and a good writer. I would love to have met him and spoken with him. That's the problem with life - you cannot meet and interact with the number of fascinating (and genuinely good people) like ABC. Here's to ABC ... |
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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine March-April 1978 - No Room in the StableCommodore John Grimes Reminisces: Lt. Grimes, on leave from Aries on Earth, travels back in time to become entangled in the arrest & capture of Ned Kelly. |
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11-10-2007
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Mr Chandler was a gentleman who was always a pleasure to meet.
So happy to see this fine writer getting his due somewhat..
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"Out of the frying pan and into the washing up water"
from Matilda's Stepchildren |
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28-09-2007
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Great website, and quite a tribute to an unusual man. I'm a big Grimes fan, which of course makes me a big Chandler fan. I'll bet if ABC conjured "autobiographical notes" for himself, we'd discover a shirt-tail relationship to one "R. Chandler," mid 20th Century (old calendar) teller of sensational tales. |
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Kangaroos Don't SmokeLong, long ago, when the emus flew
And koala bears had tails,
Before that bloke called Captain Cook
Had landed in New South Wales,
Before that hound, the dingo, found
Trees south of Capricorn,
Before the rabbits sexual habits
Made graziers forlorn;
Long, long before steam, sail or oar
Surged under The Bridge's span,
There passed a race who left no trace
-- The true, Marsupial Man. |
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25-09-2007
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Baen has a second bundle of Grimes eBooks up. A low price for a lot of great adventures--Free Trader, Matilda's Stepchildren and more! |
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The Rim WorldsSurely you have been there! |
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21-06-2007
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Huzzah! Baen Books has released the first batch of Grimes tales (when he was in the Survey Service) as DRM-free eBooks! Right now it is a good price for the whole bundle. If there are enough sales, they'll release the remainder of the series. Multiple formats (HTML, Mobipocket, etc.).
(No I don't work for Baen. Yes, I do spend way too much money on their books.) |
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All right, all right. I’m a nitpicking bastard. (But somebody has to try to maintain standards.)
I was a nitpicking bastard even before I became a full-time writer, when I was just a shipmaster who wrote the
occasional short story in an off moment.
A Bertram Chandler |
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27-05-2007
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Mr. A. Bertram Chandler, was a one of the greatest of Science Fiction writers. I was introduced to his Space operas during the late 1970's, and read many of his John Grimes books.
Thoses books reminded me of the Hornblower books. I also spent my adult life on U.S. Public Vessels going to sea. Much of the tailes told are very familar to thoughs of us that did go to sea for a living. I am glad to have found this site as over the years I have missed Mr. chandler and his stories. |
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John Grimes - Autobiographical NotesUnfortunately, it is impossible to paint a detailed picture of
Grimes’ childhood, as many records were destroyed during the Central Australian Subsidence of 375 AG.
It is known, however, that he was born in the city Alice Springs on Primus 28259. Continued... |
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19-04-2007
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I'm zealously enjoying the complete SFBC collection -- except that they're assembled out of internal chronological order!
I'm glad that this website offers the correct [so far as I've been able to determine] order.
Thanks again.
-- JJB |
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Come In. This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard! |
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24-02-2007
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Since my childhood friend and fellow SF addict Alan Reid regaled me with excerpts of the Chandler he was currently reading in the early-70s, I've been trying to find the Grimes' novel and only two days ago received the entire collection in six omnibus volumes from SFBC.
Needless to say that I'm tearing into them and only came up for a breather to find more about the man online.
JJB |
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Galaxy, May 1973 - On the AccountIf you want to catch lightspeed, try standing just before it! |
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22-02-2007
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The name for my writing forums, www.libertyhallwriters.org and our slogan were inspired by ABC and Captain Grimes. |
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Early LifeA Bertram Chandler was born on March 28, 1912 in Aldershot in the county of Hampshire, in England. Most of his early years were spent in the town of Beccles in Suffolk. |
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20-02-2007
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Can't believe it took this long to find this site.
I have even had Cats (Fur Persons) named "The Southerly Buster"... Chandler so bridged the gap between my favourite genres, Napoleanic War Wind Navy-Rim World Space navy, Chandler, Like Heinlein has the "Touch" , You open the book... The Lights come up, The sound comes on... The picture starts... It is SHOWTIME...
I sadly miss the fact that both are thee... ahead of us... |
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