《Grimes Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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Astounding in 1944 and became one of science fiction’s most popular and prolificauthors of space opera adventure. Along with Doc E. E. Smith Robert Heinlein Clifford SimakA. E. Van Vogt Lester Del Rey Jack Williamson L. Ron Hubbard and Isaac Asimov he was alsoa popular ‘Golden Age’ writer. That period from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s was usheredin by John W. Campbell and — to quote Sean McMullen in Paul Collins’s The MelbourneUniversity Press Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction amp fantasy — ‘is often referredto as the Golden Age of science fiction because the older adventure-based forms were giving wayto stories with more realistic technology at their core.’ Chandler who immigrated toAustralia from the United Kingdom in 1956 was a veteran seaman and commanded merchant marineships under Australian and New Zealand flags and he used his specialised knowledge andexperience to chronicle the epic adventures of the spacefarer John Grimes his best-knowncharacter. Chandler’s John Grimes/Rim World adventures have been rightly compared to C. S.Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series critic John Clute has written in The Encyclopedia ofScience fiction that ‘Grimes himself establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar tothat felt by readers of Hornblower.’ In 1981 Chandler wrote: ‘Quite a few years ago Robert Heinlein said “Only people who knowships can write convincingly about space ships.” At the time I thought that was very true. Ihave not changed my opinion. I believe that the crews of the real spaceships of the futurevessels going a long way in a long time will have far more in common with today’s seamen thonwith today’s airmen. I freely admit that my stories are essentially sea stories and that JohnGrimes my series character