'Leonard Nimoy is your host and master curator for this fully interactive, hyper-linked archive of rare science fiction delights from the 1950s and 1960s. With one full hour of video clips featuring Nimoy and sci-fi's leading experts and a vibrant selection of original pulp cover art, this entertaining collection is an unequaled opportunity to experience the rich creativity and vivid imagery of these sci-fi gems as never before' (www.leonardnimoy.de).
In addition to A. Bertram Chandler's The Rim of Space, the disc includes texts of a dozen novels, 50 full-color pulp magazine cover reproductions, and 67 video clips of introductory and background comments from recognized authorities in the field. Contents incomplete, with additional novels (all from the Avalon editions) by E. L. Arch, Stanton A. Coblentz, David Grinnell (Donald A. Wollheim), Murray Leinster, Frank Belknap Long, David Osborne (Robert Silverberg), George H. Smith, Manly Wade Wellman and Wallace West (www.isfdb.org).
A Rim Worlds story based around the adventures of Derek Calver, The Rim of Space sees Chandler's hero determined to join the Rim Runners in their exploration of desolate planets. He joins the crew of Lorn Lady and sets forth for Mellise, a planet inhabited by intelligent amphibians. He later visits Groller, where the natives have just qualified as humanoids; Stree, with its tea-loving lizards; and Tharn, the home of a pre-industrial civilization.
