Flying Saucers

(Cover Everett Raymond Kinstler)

A Bertram Chandler was born in Britain and spent may years at sea in the merchant navies of England, New Zealand and Australia. Now an Australian citizen he has written over 150 stories and 20 books of science fiction. He is most noted for his interstellar stories of the rim worlds, but in the following earthbound tale, he presents a brief history of saucer books and suggest an explanation for their differences

A Bertram Chandler's most famous character is John Grimes, a sort of interstellar Horatio Hornblower, who plies his trade next to the big dark of interjacent space at the edge of our galaxy. How does Chandler keep his enthusiasm for such a series protaginist, so that every new advendture will be fresh and exciting? As the story below suggests, it isn't easy.

FLYING SAUCERS, Asimov/Greenberg/Waugh, Fawcett, 1982