← Back

Into the Alternate Universe

A. Bertram Chandler

First published 1964
Type Novel
Series Rim Worlds › John Grimes #17

Synopsis

Other's called their expedition a "wild ghost chase". But for Space Commodore John Grimes and the beautiful Sonya Verrill who had initiated the project, it was strictly scientific research. Their trip along the rim of the galaxy in search of two men - two dead men - was also an investigation of the long-puzzling phenomenon of the Rim Ghosts. They would do this by penetrating into alternate universes. There was only one real problem involved in this study - how to report its results. For once the breakthrough to an alternate world was achieved, there was no known way of getting out... (from the first page of the Ace Books first edition)

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1964 Cover The Coils of Time / Into the Alternate Universe Ace Books Omnibus 5|4
November 1972 Cover The Coils of Time / Into the Alternate Universe Ace Books Omnibus 5
March 1979 Cover Into the Alternate Universe / Contraband from Otherspace Ace Books Omnibus 1
September 1981 Cover Into the Alternate Universe / Contraband from Otherspace Ace Books Omnibus 1
October 2004 Cover John Grimes: Rim Runner Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 1
December 2007 Into the Alternate Universe Baen Books Novel
April 2014 Cover Upon a Sea of Stars Baen Books Omnibus |1
April 2014 Cover Upon a Sea of Stars Baen Books Omnibus 1
November 2015 Cover Into the Alternate Universe Gateway / Orion Novel