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Chandler, A. Bertram
WHEN THE DREAM DIES [rim]
book-date: 1961
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Allison & Busby
1981

Hardcover, Ex-Library
Peter Elson

Book= VG+ or better
Dustjacket= VG+ or better

Most of the ex-library traces are on first endpapers (stamps, pocket, etc.) This is still square, and I discarded the DJ protector which had taken most of the wear.

When the Dream Dies by A. Bertram Chandler. This British reprint is the only hardcover edition, and somewhat scarce. A re-title (or restoration of magazine-title) of a book first published in book-form as Rendezvous on a Lost World (half of Ace-Double F-117 in 1961.) Shorter (?) version in Amazing February 1961 as "When the Dream Dies." One of the few "Rim Worlds" books that does not feature John Grimes - institutions and places are in common.

Alan Kemp dreams of being owner and master of a spaceship, quietly running the Eastern Circuit within reach of his home and wife - "his dream belonged to the black emptiness between the stars." Obsessed by this ambition, Kemp leads his 3 comrades and their second-hand spaceship Lucky Lady into the dangerous Lost Colonies, which are inhabited by hostile and vicious criminals on the run from justice. They are attacked by Baron Bligh and his armed horsemen, and are also taken prisoner by a Robot Controlled Intelligence. Here they encounter beautiful robot women, self-igniting cigarettes, mechanic octopoids and glittering metallic crabs. Just how much will a man sacrifice to realize a dream?






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