Galactic Courier: The John Grimes Saga
A. Bertram Chandler was an Australian SF master who filled magazines such asAstounding with adventure and space opera extraordinaire during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a favorite of legendary editor John W. Campbell and was a merchantman seaman commanding various ships in the Australian and New Zealand navies during much of his early life—a background Chandler puts to full use in his John Grimes stories.