Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series critic John Clute has written in The Encyclopedia of Science fiction that ‘Grimes himself establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower.’ ![]() Chandler’s John Grimes/Rim World adventures have been rightly compared to C. Campbell and - to quote Sean McMullen in Paul Collins’s The Melbourne University Press Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & fantasy - ‘is often referred to as the Golden Age of science fiction because the older adventure-based forms were giving way to stories with more realistic technology at their core.’ Chandler, who immigrated to Australia from the United Kingdom in 1956, was a veteran seaman and commanded merchant marine ships under Australian and New Zealand flags and he used his specialised knowledge and experience to chronicle the epic adventures of the spacefarer John Grimes, his best-known character. That period from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s was ushered in by John W. Ron Hubbard, and Isaac Asimov, he was also a popular ‘Golden Age’ writer. Van Vogt, Lester Del Rey, Jack Williamson, L. Smith, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, A. ![]() Campbell’s germinal science fiction magazine Astounding in 1944 and became one of science fiction’s most popular and prolific authors of space opera adventure. BERTRAM CHANDLER began writing for John W.
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