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The Rim of Space / The Ship from Outside (Rim World, Bks 1 & 3)
The Rim of Space / The Ship from Outside - Rim World, Bks 1 & 3 Author:A. Bertram Chandler The Rim of Space (1961): When Derek Calver touched down on Lorn, industrial hub of the Rim Worlds, he was determined to join the Rim Runners to explore the desolate Rim planets. — So it was that Calver joined the crew of Lorn Lady and set forth for Mellise, inhabited by a race of intelligent amphibians; for Grollor, where t... more »he natives just qualified as humanoids and had the beginnings of space travel; for Stree with its tea-loving philosophical lizards; and Tharn, home of a pre-industrial civilization. And as Calver journeyed to the edge of the Rim he encountered the lure of the life beyond, the warped unknown infinity "Outside".
The Ship From Outside (1963): The conquest of space had carried man to the rim of our galaxy, and there was nothing left but to step over that rim. Only one man had ever survived a flight into the depths of deep space between the galaxies and he came back with a deranged mind. He said there was something out there, something capable of warping a man's soul. But he refused, even in the face of death, to reveal what it was that he had seen. When Derek Calver, master of the spaceship The Outsider, had heard the story he became obsessed with the desire to discover for himself the secret of intergalactic space. Nothing would stop him, even if it meant bargaining his soul for a glimpse of that terrible unknown.« less