BEYOND THE GALACTIC RIM

Sphere SF paperback, 1982. Cover painting by Peter Elson.

"A MAN WHO COMES OUT TO THE RIM TO MAKE HIS LIVING WOULD GO TO HELL FOR A PASTIME 

A journey to the Rim Worlds takes you straight to the unknown or right to the gaping void of the abyss. Out there you're beyond the borders, hovering between the warped contours of troubled space and time... 

Captain Clavering bought his ship on a lottery win. Now he's holed up on the dismal planet of Lorn filling in time on a chemical-blasted airstrip waiting for a contract. Somewhere there must be a newly colonized planet needing charters of some threatened world that needs evacuating. He'd risk anything for money in the bank - even a dodgy landing on the gas-blasted plains of Eblis, if the rim runners fancy paying hard cash for an expedition to hell... 

This is just the first of four amazing journeys into the shifting uncharted worlds that spin BEYOND THE GALACTIC RIM."