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The Commodore At Sea / Spartan Planet (Commander Grimes)
The Commodore At Sea / Spartan Planet - Commander Grimes Author:A. Bertram Chandler Kinsolving's Planet ... — on the rim of space where the very fabric of space and time is stretched almost to the bursting, and the boundaries between then and now, between here and there, are so thin as to be almost non-existent. And so John Grimes should hardly have been so surprised to meet... Sherlock Holmes? Lady Chatterley? Tarzan... more » and Jane? A. Bertram Chandler??
"But many of the guests in this establishment are more odd than otherwise," said Jeeves. He gestured toward a break in the mist, through which Grimes glimpsed lush greenery, vivid flowers, a veritable jungle. And surely that was the coughing roar of a lion followed by the shrill chattering of disturbed tropical birds. . . "Lord Greystoke lives there, sir, with his wife, the Lady Jane. They have a house in a big tree, and they consort with apes . . . And the people next door . . . live in a gamekeeper's cottage. A Mr. Mellors and a Lady Constance Chatterley. . ." "So I'm not real?" demanded Grimes. "But you are, sir, otherwise you could never have come here . . . But sir, are you an enduring product?"« less