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Paperback The Doctor Stories Book

ISBN: 0811209261

ISBN13: 9780811209267

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The fifth omnibus edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes books and stories in this renowned SF space-faring saga. Contains "Into the Alternate Universe, ""Contraband from Otherspace," "The Rim Gods" (1969)--a story collection, "The Commodore at Sea" (a.k.a. "Alternate Orbits," 1971)--four novellas. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim. Number five in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels: "Into the Alternate Universe" (1964)"Contraband from Otherspace" (1967)"The Rim Gods" (1969)--story collection"The Commodore at Sea" (a.k.a. "Alternate Orbits," 1971)--four novelets About A. Bertram Chandler and the John Grimes series: "SF's answer to Horatio Hornblower." --"Publishers Weekly ""As Asimov chronicled the Foundation, as Heinlein built his Future History, so Chandler constructs the epic of the Rim Worlds." --"Analog "" Grimes] establishes a loyalty in his readers rather similar to that felt by readers of Hornblower. Indeed Chandler's] space operas are among the most likeable and well constructed in the genre. . . ." --"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"

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Perusing Williams' Mind

I feel like I've been able to peruse William Carlos Williams' mind after having read this book because he is so honest with his thoughts and feelings. Nothing, it seems, is held back and that is what I first fell in love with in his writing when I first studied his poetry in college. The raw truth is exposed over and over in this collection and I just kept wanting more. If you crave truth and honesty, this is the book for...

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A window to another era

I have just finished rereading this book for the first time in over a decade and it has enticed me into ordering a slim book of the poetry of William Carlos Williams. I am not, in general, a great lover of poetry, but he does such an excellent job conveying the exact details of a time and a place, of another era of medicine. Being a doctor myself helps to understand some of the situations, but he writes so specifically that...

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Insightful

This is an interesting series of short stories by the great American poet, William Carlos Williams. Williams was actually Dr. Williams and practiced pediatrics for many years. These stories are built around a series of clinical vignettes from medical practice in the early part of the century. While these stories are not great literature, they are very good and Williams is very good at descriptions of clinical phenomena...

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Stories from a Master Poet

This is an incredible book of short stories by Williams Carlos Williams, the noted American Poet from the thirties, forties and fifties. Like his poems, these stories have to do with human emotions and the human condition, but unlike the poems, they are fully developed with realistic backgrounds and fully fleshed out details. This is because, while Williams was writing poetry, he eeked out a living making pediatric...

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