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Bezig met laden... The Rim of Space (1958)door A. Bertram Chandler
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fun SF novel by the Australian author Chandler. Typical "Chandler" space fiction from the 1950s-60s. His stories are fun space exploration adventures. His story ideas are good. I'm sure some authors could have made 3 or 4 novels by simply expanding one Chandler short novel. He doesn't bother but keeps adventures coming. Some parts are little dated but it holds up well. Fun light Space Opera. I'll read more of his works when I just want an interesting adventure. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Commander Grimes (book 2) The Rim Worlds (2) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Priory Books (1057)
They told Derek Calver that he'd find an odd bunch among the Rim Runners out on the edge of space: Refugees from the Interstellar Transport Commission from the Survey Service, the Waverly Royal Mail and the Trans-Galactic Clippers, and so on. But Calver didn't mind; he said he was a refugee from the Commission himself. He might have added that he was a refugee from Derek Calver, the mistakes he had made, the opportunities he had thrown away, the dreams that had been lost. And there, aboard the Lorn Lady, the worn-out obsolete ship that, like most of the others here, had once been a proud vessel of the inner worlds, he found Jane Arlen, who called herself "Calamity" Jane and avoided men for fear of the disaster she was sure she would bring them. One of Jane's first questions when she met Calver was: "Are you a happy drunk?" When he said no, she continued: "Then you're one of us. You'll make a real Rim Runner, skimming the edge of eternity in a super-annuated rust-bucket held together with old string and chewing gum and taking a masochistic pleasure in it. You have run from yourself until you can't run any farther, and there's a sort of desperate joy in that, too." Then she withdrew into her own private grief shutting Calver out as she shut everyone else out, and it was a relief to find a cultured woman tourist in port who didn't behave as if she were all knotted up inside. Only Calver had forgotten the articles he had signed when he became second officer of the Lorn Lady the clauses that made him subject to court-martial by the Rim Runners organization for leaking information about his ship. He'd forgotten until the police came into the tavern. Here is a thrilling novel that sweeps the far, lonely edges of eternity." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It might be a summary of the gist of the whole series, but not this book.
I enjoyed this. Quite old-fashioned, but that's OK.
A bit of a tour around the rim worlds on the ship's trade circuit, with each chapter like a completely new adventure.
A nice bit of background which I felt worked well - Rim pilots generally where disgraced space corps ( or whatever they are called) officers inevitably end up.
The female lead started off with a bit of spunk and actually had me picturing Jane Lynch in my head - a bit sardonic and a reasonably interesting character.
Annoyed that she was relegated to "helpless damsel in distress" role reasonably quickly. ( )