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Entry Updated : 10/28/2003
Full text biography:
A. Bertram Chandler
Birth Date :
1912
Death Date :
1984
Known As :
Chandler, Arthur Bertram,Whitley, George,Dunstan, Andrew
Place of Birth:
England,Aldershot
Nationality :
British
Occupation :
Novelist
Personal Information:

Family: Born March 28, 1912, in Aldershot, England; died June 6, 1984; son of Arthur Robert (a soldier) and Ida Florence Chandler; married susan Wilson (a designer), December 23, 1962; children: (previous marriage) Penelope Anne, Christopher John, Jennifer Lynn (Mrs. Ramsey Campbell). Education: "Patchy." Politics: "Liberal--with a small `l'." Religion: "Agnostic, with Judaistic hankerings." Hobbies and other interests: Cookery, navigation, and harbour pilotage.* Memberships: P.E.N. International, Science Fiction Writers of America, Austalian Merchant Service Guild, Australian Society of Authors, British Interplanetary Society (fellow).

Writings:

  • The Hamelin Plague, Monarch Books, 1963.
  • Glory Planet, Avalon, 1964.
  • The Deep Reaches of Space, Jenkins, 1964.
  • False Fatherland, Horwitz, 1968, published as Spartan Planet, Dell, 1969.
  • Catch the Star Winds, Lancer, 1969.
  • The Sea Beasts, Curtis, 1971.
  • To Prime the Pump, Curtis, 1971.
  • The Bitter Pill, Wren, 1974.
  • The Broken Cycle, R. Hale, 1975.
  • The Big Black Mark, DAW Books, 1975.
  • The Way Back, R. Hale, 1976, DAW Books, 1978.
  • Star Courier, DAW Books, 1977.
  • The Far Traveller, R. Hale, 1977, DAW Books, 1979.
  • To Keep the Ship, DAW Books, 1978.
  • The Anarch Lords, DAW Books, 1981.
  • Star Loot, R. Hale, 1981.
  • (With Lee Hoffman) Up to the Sky in Ships: In and out of Quandry, New England Science Fiction Association, 1982.
  • Matilda's Step-children, R. Hale, 1979, DAW Books, 1983.
  • The Wild Ones, Paul Collins (Collingwood, Australia), 1984.
  • From Sea to Shining Star, edited by Keith Curtis and Susan Chandler, Dreamstone (Fyshwick, Australia), 1990.
Published by Ace Books, except as indicated:
  • The Rim of Space, 1961, reprinted, Schocken, 1981.
  • Bring Back Yesterday, 1961, reprinted Schocken, 1982.
  • Rendezvous on a Lost World, 1961, published as When the Dream Dies, Schocken, 1981.
  • The Ship from Outside, 1963.
  • Beyond the Galactic Rim, 1963, reprinted, Schocken, 1983.
  • The Coils of Time, 1964.
  • Into the Alternate Universe, 1964, reprinted, 1981.
  • Empress of Outer Space, 1965.
  • The Alternate Martians, 1965.
  • Space Mercenaries, 1965.
  • Contraband from Otherspace, 1967.
  • Nebula Alert, 1967.
  • The Road to the Rim (also see below), bound with The Lost Millennium, by Richmond I. Walt, 1967, reprinted with The Hard Way Up (also see below), 1981.
  • Rim Gods, 1969.
  • Alternate Orbits [and] The Dark Dimensions, 1971.
  • The Hard Way Up, bound with The Veiled World, by Robert Lory, 1972, reprinted with The Road to the Rim, 1981.
  • The Gateway to Never [and] The Inheritors, 1972.
  • Frontier of the Dark, 1984.

Also author of short stories for magazines, sometimes under the pseudonyms of Andrew Dunstan and George Whitley.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, 2003
Gale Database: Contemporary Authors Online
Source Citation: " A. Bertram Chandler." 2003. Books & Authors. Gale. Gale Internal User 2 Sep 2010 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>