The Big Black Mark

Book Details

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Author(s):

A Bertram Chandler

First Pub:

1975

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

46 chapters

Internal ID:

13521

Series:

The Inheritors
The Broken Cycle

Grimes in Federation Service*

#6 of 8

Grimes in Federation Service*

A series of science fiction novels by A Bertrand Chandler. These are set within the Rim Worlds series.

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1) The Road to the Rim
2) Spartan Planet
3) To Prime the Pump
4) The Hard Way Up
5) The Inheritors
6) The Big Black Mark
7) The Broken Cycle
8) Star Courier

Rim Worlds

#24 of 35

Rim Worlds

A series of science-fiction novels by A Bertram Chandler all set in the same universe. John Grimes books are included in this series.

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1) The Rim of Space
2) Rendezvous on a Lost World
3) Bring Back Yesterday
4) Beyond the Galactic Rim
5) The Ship from Outside
6) Into the Alternate Universe
7) The Deep Reaches of Space
8) The Coils of Time
9) Alternate Martians
10) Empress of Outer Space
11) Space Mercenaries
12) Nebula Alert
13) Contraband from Otherspace
14) The Road to the Rim
15) Spartan Planet
16) The Rim Gods
17) Catch the Star Winds
18) The Dark Dimensions
19) To Prime the Pump
20) Alternate Orbits
21) The Hard Way Up
22) The Inheritors
23) The Gateway to Never
24) The Big Black Mark
25) The Broken Cycle
26) The Way Back
27) The Far Traveler
28) Star Courier
29) To Keep the Ship
30) Matilda's Stepchildren
31) Star Loot
32) The Anarch Lords
33) The Last Amazon
34) The Wild Ones
35) Frontier of the Dark

Copyright:

Dedication:

To William Bligh

First Sentence:

Commander John Grimes, Federation Survey Service, should have been happy.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

In spite of all that had been done to him by them, in spite of all that had happened because of them, he rather hoped so.

Comments:

No comments on file

Extract not on file

Added: 31-Jan-2023

Last Updated: 24-Oct-2024

01-Jan-1978

DAW Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1978

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.50

Pages*:

224

Catalog ID:

UW1355

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23219

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97355-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97355-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Kelly Freas - Cover Artist

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. DAW Books is proud to welcome A. Bertram Chandler to its lists and doubly proud to present that major novel of Grimes, the only character in all space fiction with the scope and depth that Captain Hornblower achieved in the field of sea fiction.

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.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Printing, February 1975
Third printing based on the number line

Other book covers for this series run

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1978

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.50

Pages*:

224

Catalog ID:

UW1355

Pub Series #:

139

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

43788

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97355-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97355-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Kelly Freas - Cover Artist

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Printing, February 1975
Third printing based on the number line

DAW collectors number is not on this book. I have assigned the number 139 based on the previous publication with the same cover even though the catalog IDs are different.

Other book covers for this series run

01-Jan-1978
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

A Bertram Chandler
Birth: 28 Mar 1912 Aldershot, England, UK
Death: 06 Jun 1984

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