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'A good officer on a modern merchant marine ship has a great deal of highly specialized knowledge. But if that man somehow found himself an officer on a merchant spaceship, his special knowledge would seem pretty useless - ordinarily. But not that trip!' (www.bertramchandler.com)

Notes

  • Chandler later expanded this short story into the novel, The Deep Reaches of Space (1964).

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Alternative title: Planet ohne Umkehr
Language: German
    • Rastatt,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Pabel ,       1961 .
      person or book cover
      Cover by R. S. Lonati. Source: www.romanheft-info.de
      Extent: 79p.
      Series: y separately published work icon Utopia Grossband Pabel (publisher), Rastatt : Pabel , 1954-1963 Z1848799 1953 series - publisher novella science fiction The Utopia Grossman series was published by Erich Pabel between 1954 and 1963. Utopia was part of the title of several science fiction series published by Pabel, and collectively they have come to be regarded as one of the two most important science fiction series to be published in West Germany during the 1950s and 1960s (along with Terra, the series established by rival publisher Arthur Moewig). Number in series: 150
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y separately published work icon The Deep Reaches of Space A. Bertram Chandler , London : Herbert Jenkins , 1964 Z810943 1964 single work novel science fiction
— Appears in: Cosmo : I Capolavori della Fantascienza , 1 December no. 76 1967; (p. 3-116)

The Deep Reaches of Space has undisguised autobiographical elements in having as its protagonist a seaman turned science-fiction writer who travels to the future and uses his nautical experience to save a party of humans stranded on an alien planet. Chandler also has as his central character George Whitely, the name he occasionally used as a pseudonym.

After an injection of lysergic acid, Whitely finds himself inhabiting the body of Peter Quinn, Second Officer of the interstellar liner Lode Maiden. His mind, however, is still that of his former self. When a magnetic storm throws the spaceship into the deep reaches of space Quinn's body somehow retains enough knowledge to help Whitely land the ship on an unnamed planed on the Galactic Rim...

'where new horrors and dangers wait..'

[Source: www.bertramchandler.com]
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