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Cover by Rowena Morrill. Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database (www.isfdb.org)
y separately published work icon Into the Alternate Universe / Contraband from Otherspace selected work   novella   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Into the Alternate Universe / Contraband from Otherspace
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* Contents derived from the New York (City), New York (State),
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Into the Alternate Universe, A. Bertram Chandler , single work novella science fiction
Practical and hard-headed John Grimes is not the sort to believe in ghosts but he's willing to give psychics a chance when shapely Sonya Verrill, a commander in the Federation Survey Service, proposes a ghost-hunting expedition in the sector around Kinsolving's Planet. Out where the fabric of space wears thin, ships have encountered Rim Ghosts—apparitions of craft and crewmates from alternate universes. When Grimes organizes a séance to make contact, their ship is yanked into an alternate universe, and their only hope of getting home lies in a lost relic - a sleeper ship from the first age of space exploration.
Contraband from Otherspace, A. Bertram Chandler , single work novella science fiction

Grimes and Sonya embark on a wholly different adventure: marriage. But running their own little shipping company takes a back seat to danger when a distress call leads the pair to an alien ship from an alternate universe—a ship carrying contraband from otherspace— mutant rats which evolved to rule their universe...and threaten to breakthrough to ours. This deadly cargo threatens to sheer through the fabric of reality, like a knife through soft butter.
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