Star Loot
by A. Bertram Chandler
Commander Grimes (book 9), Abenteuer Randwelt (12), John Grimes Chronology (12), John Grimes Rimworld (23)
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In luck and out of luck, John Grimes was a living legend of the spaceways. He had been an officer of the service, he had been the victim of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under strange masters and on strange ships, but he had never turned space pirate. Until this adventure. How it happened was a complex story to begin with, but typical Grimes luck. How he became the terror of the star lanes developed, as usual, from his own efforts to make an honest living and other's show more efforts to use him for devious diversions. This is the latest Grimes novel--a story of the loot of the stars, of how Grimes graduated from operator of a space courier ship to master of a fleet of dreaded carriers of the skull and crossbones Publishers Weekly declared that John Grimes is "science fiction's answer to Horatio Hornblower." show lessTags
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Another entry in the A. Bertram Chandler John Grimes series. The aliens were fun. This features a number of characters from earlier Grimes novels, and therefore is not the book in this series to start with, best read in chronological order. Feminists will not find this a pleasing book :-)
A. Bertram Chandler was the Master of a Merchant ship in real life, and no doubt some of the crew character interactions benefit from his long experience aboard ship.
Space Opera Adventure with a dollop of Hornblower. 3.5 Stars
A Guilty Pleasure.
A. Bertram Chandler was the Master of a Merchant ship in real life, and no doubt some of the crew character interactions benefit from his long experience aboard ship.
Space Opera Adventure with a dollop of Hornblower. 3.5 Stars
A Guilty Pleasure.
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Commander Grimes
12 works (book 9)
Abenteuer Randwelt
16 works (12)
John Grimes Chronology
23 works (12)
John Grimes Rimworld
28 works (23)
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Goldmann Science Fiction (23768)
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- Canonical title*
- Grimes, Freibeuter des Weltraums
- Original title
- Star Loot
- Original publication date
- 1980-09
- People/Characters
- John Grimes
- Important places*
- Austral; Erde; El Dorado; Kalla
- First words
- Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben war Grimes reich.
For the first time in his life Grimes was rich. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Während der folgenden Reise zurück zur Erde dachte Grimes noch oft: Wo ist die blöde Katze nur, jetzt, wo ich sie brauchen könnte?
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)More than once during the voyage back to Earth Grimes would think, Where is that bloody cat now that I need him? - Publisher's editor*
- Singer, Theodor; Terrahe, Sybille
- Original language*
- Englisch
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