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Beyond the Galactic Rim selected work   short story   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1963... 1963 Beyond the Galactic Rim
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Beyond the Galactic Rim (1963) is an early collection of Chandler's Rim Worlds stories comprising four stories, all published in various speculative fiction magazines in 1959. These are: 'Forbidden Planet' (first published in Fantastic Universe), 'Wet Paint' (Amazing), 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' (Fantasy and Science Fiction), and 'The Key' (Fantastic).

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Wet Paint, A. Bertram Chandler , single work short story science fiction
'You're liable to find anything - or anybody - out on the gloomy, lonely Rim Worlds. But when the Survey Group on unihabited Kinsolving found a cave painting with the paint still wet...well...'

[Source: www.bertramchandler.com]
Forbidden Planet, A. Bertram Chandler , single work short story science fiction
Originally titled "To Hell for a Pastime" before being published in Fantastic Universe as "Forbidden Planet," this story is one of the earliest stories to be set in the bleak cold edge of the Galaxy known as the Rim Worlds.
The Man Who Could Not Stop, A. Bertram Chandler , single work short story science fiction
Clavering steals the Shaara crown jewels and flees Earth. After many more crimes, including murder, on various worlds, he ends up on Faraway on the Rim. Once there, he can't be extradited, but he can be deported. Local laws make it virtually impossible for him to fence the jewels. He ends up going to jail and learns the name of a fence there. Upon looking up the fence, he learns that the jewels (which he stashed) have already been returned to the Shaara. He gets sent to jail again for the murder of the fence, and ends up press-ganged (as part of his sentence) into becoming a crew member aboard a ship that is leaving the galaxy entirely.

[Source: Todd Bennett. The Rim World's Concordance]
The Key, A. Bertram Chandler , single work short story science fiction
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    y separately published work icon Beyond the Galactic Rim / The Ship From Outside A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Ace Books , 1963 Z1840158 1963 single work novella science fiction New York (City) : Ace Books , 1963
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      Americas,      :       Schocken Books ,       1982 .
      ISBN: 0805281223, 978-0805281224
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sphere ,       1982 .
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      Extent: 120p.
      ISBN: 0722122845 (pbk)
Alternative title: За краем галактики
Language: Russian
Notes:
Translates into English as Over the Edge of the Galaxy.
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    y separately published work icon Legendy Prigranich'ya Легенды Приграничья; Legends of the Borderland; Legends of the Rim A. Bertram Chandler , Moscow : ACT , 2003 Z1838550 2003 selected work novella short story

    This Russian collection of Rim Worlds stories comprises the novellas The Rim of Space, Bring Back Yesterday, Catch the Star Winds and Space Mercenaries, along with the Beyond the Galactic Rim (collection) and the short story "Zoological Specimen."

    The stories in Beyond the Galactic Rim are: 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Key,' 'Wet Paint' and 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop.'

         Moscow : ACT , 2003     pg. 218-318
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