A. Bertram Chandler
Arthur Bertram Chandler (1912–1984) was an Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M.
John Grimes · #19
Rendezvous on a Lost World is also known as When the Dream Dies (1981).
His was a dream few spaceman ever saw come true. In a second-hand, obsolete space ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off determined to set up a shuttle service between the planets at the rim of the galaxy.
But trouble – in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other by the descendants of a murderous pirate – threatened. Kemps crew began to wonder: just how much will one man sacrifice to realize a dream?