Number one in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Classic <I>Star Trek</i> meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here we first meet Lieutenant John Grimes of the Federation Survey Service.  He's green from the Academy, but a heroic starship captain in the making, ready for adventure, if not quite a prepared as he believes himself to be.<P>Includes a cornucopia of Grimes novels bringing together previous Lieutenant Grimes tales in <I>The Road to the Rim, To Prime the Pump, The Hard Way Up </i>and <I>The Broken Cycle.</i>