For the first time in ebook, a timeless collection of short stories from seminal science fiction writer E. C. Tubb! Stories in this The Ming Vase – A dangerous prisoner and a highly valuable antique have gone missing as one CIA Agent is troubled by his own intuitive abilities… Tell the Truth – Humans and aliens are on the brink of war. Can a military toy seller survive without lying? The Last Day of Summer – Medical advances have won the fight against ageing. Is death still inevitable? Fresh Guy – Earth is a more unforgiving and perilous place than ever, where the ruling mythical creatures are planning controlled breeding of humans… Vigil – In a tale of love and bitterness, an interplanetary truck driver meets an old man searching for his missing son. Piebald Horse – A Terran spy trapped by telepathic forces resorts to extreme measures in a bid to escape… Sense of Proportion – A media ratings battle is out of control when a devious producer visits a heroic but gravely ill astronaut and threatens to revisit the past. Greater than Infinity – Logic and probability collide in interstellar space… Last of the Morticians – Two undertakers adapt in a climate of immortality. Worm in the Woodwork – The threat of extinction is overtaken by a peculiar resistance to torture and one man’s exhausting ability to see into the future. Greek Gift – Through the mist in the temple lies the promise of eternal life. Will curious Jeff find his wife and the glittering utopia he hopes for? Poor Henry – Naïve Henry is on Mars with his spoilt bride who is full of cruel ambition when a hideous swarm of creatures test his optimism. 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.
