John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic history, but right now he's a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy. <P> <P> <P> <ul type="disc"> <li ><i >The Road to the Rim</i>—meet Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service; fresh out of the Academy—and as green as they come.  </li> <li ><i >To Prime the Pump</i>—<st1:city ><st1:place >El Dorado</st1:place></st1:City> is a planet with a pressing problem: the men are infertile, cause unknown, and the women want someone to Do Something! Not quite the problem young John Grimes expected to deal with . . . </li> <li ><i >The Hard Way Up</i>—a collection of seven tales of John Grime's adventures, meeting danger and winning glory out at the rim of the Galaxy. </li> <li ><i >The Broken Cycle</i>—John Grimes never intended to get lost in space, let alone being lost with a very attractive policewoman who's all business. And he <i >really</i> never expected to run into an entity who claims to be a god and has a garden of Eden ready and waiting for the pair. </li></ul> <P> <P> <P>            Three novels and a story collection, all in one attractively-priced volume of space adventure.