A Bertram Chandler
Gammel'nskaya plague

The Story

The following is based on a machine generated translation from from a Russian Book Reivew.. If you can do better I would be happy to update the text! www.svenlib.sandy.ru/booknews/31_07_04.htm

Gammel'nskaya plague

• “Another universe” (“Into the Alternate Universe”, 1964; it is part of the series “John Grimes: Rim Commodore”; the Russian text includes the dedication, which was present in the original - “For my nose- that -grindstone keeper”; Translated by T.Serebryanoy)
• “Smuggling from another peace” (“Contraband From Otherspace”, 1967; first published in September- October of 1966 in the periodical “If” by the name “Edge of Night”; it is part of the series “John Grimes: Rim Commodore”; the Russian text includes the dedication - “For who else but Susan?”; Translated by T.Serebryanoy)
• “Spare orbits” (collection “Alternate Orbits”, 1971; also know in THE USA by the name “The Commodore at sea”; it is part of the series “John Grimes: Rim Commodore”; in the Russian publication the stories are for some reason arranged in the reverse order; includes the dedication , “For my favourite wife”, is for some reason referred by compilers to the first story and, correspondingly, it occurs at the end of the collector; Translated by O. Chumichevoy)
• “Rendezvous on a lost World”; first published during February 1961 in “Amazing” by the name “When the Dream Dies”1; it is related to “The Rim World Series”; dedication - “To Scott Meredith”; Translated by T. Fedotovoy)
• “Gammel'nskaya plague” (“The Hamelin Plague”, 1963; dedication - “For my fat cat”; Translated by A. Suvorovoy);