Order of A. Bertram Chandler Books
A. Bertram Chandler was a popular pulp science fiction author. He wrote over forty novels during his career as well as 200 works of short fiction. Chandler is best known for writing the John Grimes novels, the Rim World series, and the Empress Irene series.
Chandler won awards throughout his career for his writing, including multiple Australian Ditmar Awards. He was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer for the first part of his career which ended up showing up often in his fiction as his descriptions of life aboard spaceships was very similar to his own experience on ships. Chandler was also known for using parallel universes as a plot device with many characters crossing over between universes.
Publication Order of Commander Grimes Books
| Rendezvous on a Lost World | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Deep Reaches of Space | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Catch the Star Winds | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Far Traveler | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Keep the Ship | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Matilda's Stepchildren | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Loot | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Anarch Lords | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Ones | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Amazon | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tramp Captain | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lieutenant Of The Survey Service | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Survey Captain | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rim Runner | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Reserve Commodore | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Derek Calver Adventures Books
| The Rim of Space | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ship from Outside | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Grimes in the Rim World Books
| Into the Alternate Universe | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Contraband from Otherspace | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rim Gods | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dark Dimensions | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gateway to Never | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Way Back | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Commodore at Sea / Alternate Orbits | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Empress Books
| Empress of Outer Space | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Mercenaries | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nebula Alert | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Grimes in Federation Service Books
| The Road To The Rim | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| False Fatherland / Spartan Planet | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Prime the Pump | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Inheritors | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Black Mark | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Broken Cycle | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Courier | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of John Grimes Saga Books
| To the Galactic Rim | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Command | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galactic Courier | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ride the Star Winds | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Upon a Sea of Stars | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Note: This is an omnibus series with various works by Chandler. | ||
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Bring Back Yesterday | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hamelin Plague | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Coils of Time | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Glory Planet | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Alternate Martians | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sea Beasts | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| When the Dream Dies | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Frontier of the Dark | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kelly Country | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Wet Paint | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Raiders of the Solar Frontier | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Beyond the Galactic Rim | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hard Way Up | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Up to the Sky in Ships | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Astounding Science Fiction, February 1946 | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Vol. 9 No. 25 | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1959 | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| SF Authors' Choice 2 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galaxy Magazine, March 1971 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Other Worlds | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Australian Science Fiction | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worst Contact | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Out of this World Adventures, July 1950 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Out of this World Adventures, December 1950 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vanguard Science Fiction, June 1958 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like A. Bertram Chandler Books, You’ll Love…
Road to Rim is the first book in the Grimes in Federation Service series. This book introduces John Grimes long before he is the commander of his own starship and before his part in changing the course of galactic history. Grimes is only a junior officer in this story, fresh out of the academy and very green. He heads off on his first assignment, but there are no military transports heading his way so he ends up aboard a civilian merchantman. The captain of the ship warns Grimes of the others, but he ends up being the one on the wrong side of Grimes when he makes plans to bait pirates into a trap.
Rendezvous on a Lost World is another Chandler novel. Alan Kemp has a dream to set up a shuttle between the planets at the rim of the galaxy. Trouble finds him in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the descendants of a murderous pirate. Kemp has a dream, but he’s going to have to sacrifice if he wishes for it to come true.