John Rankine: 18 books

In 'The Fletcher Chronicles' we follow Dag Fletcher's extraordinary career in a collection of short stories. As Controller and trouble-shooter for European Space. Through his six year military stint with the Inter Galactic Organisation. His rise to Chairman in the Space Corporation. And, finally,...

Returning from an I.G.O mission with his co-pilot critically injured, Sam York had got this far in his battered Interceptor. The last thing he needed was a close call on planetfall with a merchant ship - especially one captained by a former service rival, George Dumalin. With a growing series of...

Dag Fletcher, seconded from European Space Corporation to do his regulation six year military stint for the Inter Galactic Organization, was regarded as one of the best corvette commanders around. First choice for the difficult and bizarre missions, he had all the skills to get the job done. It was...

Captain Dag Fletcher was about to try out his diplomatic skills. After the recent I.G.O.-O.G.A. confrontation, European Space had been given back their company office on Fingalna and he had the tricky task of smoothing the way for a full return. Then there was the minor task of looking after a high...

In opposing the Triopus project, Grant Kirby was one by himself. Powerful commercial and political lobbies saw him as a threat and wanted him silenced. Was there in fact, a menace in the green planet or was he rationalizing his own growing disillusionment with Earth and its social pattern? Kirby...

Commander Kurt Foreman of the I.G.O. frigate Phalarope felt he had been lumbered with a nursemaid mission to keep an eye on a team of sociologists who were all set for an investigative visit to a remote planet in O.G.A. space. The sponsor of the trip was a powerful entrepreneur with too much influence...

Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was beginning to feel very angry with the whole pointless business. What had begun as a commercial and training flight aboard the old I.G.O. corvette Interstellar X had gathered such complications to itself that the mission was drifting towards a first class muddle....

Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was involved as soon as Interstellar Two Nine disappeared in the gravisphere of Bromius. There must have been more to the loss of the starship than  navigational error or mechanical failure. An ethnological mission couldn't have got into that much trouble. This...

Dag Fletcher's first trip back with European Space was not going well. His six year military stint with I.G.O. had taught him that there were no simple missions. This just confirmed it. It was supposed to have been a straight-forward freight run--to get him back into the swing of things. And he wasn't...

F. S. Hartley was making the best of a bad job. The rebuilding programme at his school was drawing on all his skills in crisis management. Today, the digger had just cut the main power line--again, the School Inspector was threatening the whole future with talk of 'comprehensive education' and 'mergers'...

A man does not step into the same river twice. He never goes through the same door. To Kurt Yardley, this is amply borne out by the train of circumstance which follows the forced landing of his freighter Charib on the bleakly inhospitable plains of an unlisted planet. Life has evolved without a familiar...

Sam Shepherd, minding his own business, with his car locked on the freeway safety strip, was a surprised man when he saw Jean Quale draped like a wet sack over a five barred gate. Stopping to check out what she was up to, put his feet on a path littered with uncertainty. He was hooked to a sequence...

To Prosper Kanes the resurrection of interest in the Weisman Experiment, long suppressed officially by the Federal Government, was merely a whim of the Chairman--a routine chore of investigation in the memory banks of his computer. As a Professional Grade 4 citizen he was not expected to question...

Caster was a typical city of the age. Its people were inoculated every year with U4--a drug which prevented them from asking the questions which ought to be asked. Clint Pearson had worked out a system for missing the inoculation. Only he knew that things were badly wrong. Somehow they had to make...