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Series · 6 books · 1975-1977

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#3

The Space Guardians

1975

A RUNAWAY MOON IS THEIR SPACESHIP, THEIR REFUGE, THEIR PRISON! Blasting through the cosmos on a collision course with adventure, the 311 inhabitants of Alpha travel to mysterious, uncharted regions of the galaxy. Each day is a game of survival with the merciless universe. On Alpha, Commander Koenig is still breathing. His soul has been stolen by a dazzling woman in a purple city that exists in the realm of thought only. And blood runs cold when an alien force transforms a crewman into an icy, energy-consuming monster—who won't stop till Alpha freezes over! Contains the episodes "Missing Link", "Force of Life", and "Guardian of Piri"
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#4

Collision Course

1975

LOST IN SPACE! A nuclear "mistake" blasts the men and women of Moonbase Alpha on a daring one-way odyssey to distant stars. Their only home is a wandering cinder heap. Their daily routine—outwitting the treacherous alien forces of the universe. There is a brilliant flash of light and a planet appears where none should be. A gift from the mysterious queen Arra? Or a deadly world where the present becomes as primitive as the past? The Alphans unlock more than the secret of life and death when they free an astonishing creature with the face of a diabolical angel! Contains the episodes "Collision Course", "The Full Circle", "End of Eternity", and "Death's Other Dominion"
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#9

Rogue Planet

1976

"TURN BACK, FOR DEATH AWAITS YOU!" The chill warning echoes from the depths of the unknown, shattering the icy silence of space. But the bold Alphans must spin faster and faster toward an electrifying confrontation with their unknown enemy. Ageless against the stars stands Omphalos. A giant green "brain," this galactic monster spins a web of deadly horrors, trapping Alpha in a ghastly psychic war! Complete story not based on any episode.
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#11

Earthfall

1977

Space:1999 Earthfall is E.C. Tubb's singular reimagining of the series.
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#15

The Psychomorph

1977

AMOEBA OF ILLUSION Know your enemy to defeat him is an important battle rule, but now the Alphans must fight an adversary they cannot see—a million-mile wide space amoeba that is struggling to stay alive. To get the energy it needs to revitalize its dying tissues, the organism must find a new source of energy. Shapeless, invisible but incredibly ingenious, it surrounds the Moon Base and invades it through its most vulnerable defenses: the minds of its inhabitants. To weak to act forcibly, it deludes the Alphans into initiating their own destruction. Contains the episodes "The Lambda Factor", and "The Bringers of Wonder"
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#16

The Time Fighters

1977

INTO A BLACK HOLE Alone! Koenig has gone out into space to investigate a derelict ship—and while he is away, Moon Base Alpha has been swallowed up by a Black Hole. How can Koenig get back? In his absence, what will happen to Maya whose personality is disintegrating? As she changes from shape to shape, one form more monstrous than the last, she jeopardizes the entire Moon Base. The break-away moon and its commander are facing disaster at the opposite ends of Time and Space. Contains the episodes "Space Warp", "Dorzak", "Devil's Planet", and "The Seance Spectre"

Authors

E.C. Tubb
E.C. Tubb
Author · 58 books

Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future Much of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used 58 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw. Tubb's Charles Grey alias was solely his own and acquired a big following in the early 1950s. An avid reader of pulp science-fiction and fantasy in his youth, Tubb found that he had a particular talent as a writer of stories in that genre when his short story 'No Short Cuts' was published in New Worlds magazine in 1951. He opted for a full-time career as a writer and soon became renowned for the speed and diversity of his output. Tubb contributed to many of the science fiction magazines of the 1950s including Futuristic Science Stories, Science Fantasy, Nebula and Galaxy Science Fiction. He contributed heavily to Authentic Science Fiction editing the magazine for nearly two years, from February 1956 until it folded in October 1957. During this time, he found it so difficult to find good writers to contribute to the magazine, that he often wrote most of the stories himself under a variety of pseudonyms: one issue of Authentic was written entirely by Tubb, including the letters column. His main work in the science fiction genre, the Dumarest series, appeared from 1967 to 1985, with two final volumes in 1997 and 2008. His second major series, the Cap Kennedy series, was written from 1973 to 1983. In recent years Tubb updated many of his 1950s science fiction novels for 21st century readers. Tubb was one of the co-founders of the British Science Fiction Association.

Brian Ball
Author · 9 books
Also writes as Brian Ball.
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