The E C Tubb Boxset Child of Space A strange object has crashed landed on the Moon… In an underground hall, gouged out of the lunar rock, the scientists at Moonbase One have created a miniature section of Earth. Commander Mark Regan watches carefully over his people, maintaining a good rhythm within their new ecosystem. However, when a strange object from outer space shows up on their scans, it threatens to destroy the whole base and their hard won way of life. The object is heading towards the moon on a collision course. Destroyer of Worlds “Turn back! Back! Back!” A warning – but from whom? Passengers aboard the Ad Astra spaceship find themselves subject to a mental hijacking from perpetrators unknown. As Commander Maddox, chief medical officer Dr. Claire Allard, and the rest of the crew struggle to understand this mysterious harbinger, one of their scout ships is attacked. Soon they will learn why they should have heeded the warning… soon they will find themselves at the mercy of the Destroyer of Worlds… A Scatter of Stardust In this collection, magic and science, mind and matter, strange worlds and deadly weapons fill the universes created by E. C. Tubb. Strange bells that toll tales of death… A quick trip to Paradise… A deal with an outdated demon… Mankind’s final pilgrimage… And many more. Vivid and brilliant, A Scatter of Stardust are classic science fiction tales that will grip you until the last page. A perfect introduction to the writings of E. C. Tubb. And Twelve from Tomorrow provides twelve visions of man’s future by a professional with a sharp eye for human weakness mirrored in the world of tomorrow. Edwin Charles Tubb 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 Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. He has used 58 pen names over five decades. Edwin died in 2010.
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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.
