The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (John Grimes) by A. Bertram Chandler

The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (John Grimes) Reviews

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  Rick

  Chandler fostered my dreams of space exploration and the endless vastness thereof. With his background at sea, he spun a wide variety of seafaring (space faring) yarns that captivated me. One of SF's authors I truly wish I'd met and had time for a conversation.
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  John Walls

  Of course a bit dated (written in 1967), but not a bad start to a series. But seeing as I am inputting this review a year after reading the book, and I have not gone on to the next in the series - maybe not a great start, either.
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  SciFiOne

  Ace Double Novel 0-44-73100-7-173
  Road To The Rim, grade B, book 1?
  Hard Way Up, grade C, book 2?
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  Mark

  I found these a real hard slog.
  The first book is ok but quite unremarkable. There are an awful lot of pages with not much happening. Some people have said the characters Is a bit chauvinistic, I disagree, that would imply there is something mildly interesting about him.
  The second book was very tiresome. It is like collection of very bad, quite pointless, episodes of "Tales of the Unexpected"
  Technically not that great either, characters tend to appear in conversations. Description of locations are also very sparse.