The Best Science Fiction of E.C. Tubb

E. C. Tubb

Wildside Press LLC, Feb 1, 2005 - Fiction - 204 pages

EDWIN CHARLES TUBB is one of the most popular and prolific British writers of science fiction. Born between World War I and II, he became an avid reader of the American pulp magazines, but the second World War thwarted his writing ambitions. Post-war he was in the vanguard of an emerging group of talented British writers. They included Brian Aldiss, Sydney J. Bounds, John Brunner, Ken Bulmer, John Christopher, John Russell Fearn, Philip E. High and John Wyndham, who collectively helped lay the foundations for British science fiction as it exists today. Tubb's first professional sale, a short story, was published in 1951, in the leading British science fiction magazine New Worlds, where he quickly became established as a star contributor. The first of his many novels appeared as a paperback original shortly thereafter, and he was soon featuring in all of the other British SF magazines, most notably Authentic Science Fiction, Nebula Science Fiction, and Science Fantasy. Over the next decade, Tubb also became established in the leading American SF magazines, selling outstanding stories to Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy, If, and Planet Stories. He also became established in the United States as a novelist, and is today best known as the creator of the long-running "Dumarest of Terra" series. Here then are hand-picked stories, the cream of the crop, making The Best Science Fiction of E.C. Tubb the publishing event of the year

Contents

• Fallen Angel: 7
• Deathwish: 21
• The Ming Vase: 37
• The Beatific Smile: 60
• Read me This Riddle: 76
• Vigil: 104
• Legal Eagle: 119
• Theres No Tomorrow: 136
• Time To Kill 192: 156
• The Last Day of Summer: 175
• Time and Again: 192

About the author

E. C. Tubb was born in London on October 15, 1919. He wrote under about 65 pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt during his 60 years as a freelance writer. He mainly wrote science fiction novels including Moon Base, Alien Dust, The Space-Born, Death Is a Dream, and the series The Dumarest Saga or Dumarest of Terra in the United States. He died on September 10, 2010 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Best Science Fiction of E.C. Tubb
• Author: E. C. Tubb
• Publisher: Wildside Press LLC, 2005
• ISBN: 0809544806, 9780809544806
• Length: 204 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General