E.C. Tubb

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  • Bibliography:
    152 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1972
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Dumarest of Terra

1 - Winds of Gath (Apr-1982)
2 - Derai (Apr-1982)
3 - Toyman (May-1982)
4 - Kalin (Jun-1982)
6 - Lallia (Sep-1982)
7 - Technos (Oct-1982)
9 - Mayenne (May-1973)
10 - Jondelle (Oct-1973)
11 - Zenya (Mar-2014)
12 - Eloise (Mar-1975)
13 - Eye of the Zodiac (Sep-1975)
14 - Jack of Swords (Jun-1976)
15 - Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun (Nov-1976)
16 - Haven of Darkness (May-1977)
17 - Prison of Night (Dec-1977)
18 - Incident on Ath (Jul-1978)
19 - The Quillian Sector (1978)
20 - Web of Sand (1979)
21 - Iduna's Universe (Nov-1979)
22 - The Terra Data (Apr-1980)
23 - World of Promise (Nov-1980)
24 - Nectar of Heaven (Apr-1981)
25 - The Terridae (Oct-1981)
26 - The Coming Event (Apr-1982)
28 - Melome (Jun-1983)
29 - Angado (Feb-1984)
30 - Symbol of Terra (Sep-1984)
31 - The Temple of Truth (Jul-1985)

Space 1999

1 - Breakaway (Aug-1975)
2 - Collision Course (Jan-1976)
3 - Alien Seed (May-1976)

Book List in Order: 152 titles

  • Century of Manikin

  • Century of the Manikin

    Dale Tulliver was his name and he was a product of the 21st Century, the era of non-violence, permanent peace, and the drugs that controlled warlike emotions. He was a police agent of the Peace Committee that controlled the world. Naomi Constance ...

  • A Scatter of Stardust

    “His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” Michael Moorcock

    Never before in ebook, A Scatter of Stardust is a collection of ten science fiction stories sure to delight fans of the genre...

  • Mayenne

    Dumarest of Terra - 9

    BEYOND OUR COSMOS The planet was without a star of its own. It was from another galaxy. It was uninhabited ...and it was sentient. In its own way it might have been the most powerful single intelligent entity in the universe. But it knew nothin...

  • Jondelle

    Dumarest of Terra - 10

    THE LONG ROAD TO TERRA Ourelle was the closest planet to legendary Earth that Earl Dumarest had reached. There the legend of the Original People persisted among the several strange races that populated this world out along a far arm of the Milky W...

  • S.T.A.R. Flight

    The Kaltich invaders sell their Earthman serfs a rejuvenation process that cruelly prolongs life. They also promise to share their secret for instantaneous space travel desperately needed by a barbaric, over-populated Earth. But decades pass and Eart...

  • Eloise

    Dumarest of Terra - 12

    The Cyber Prime had a problem. The vast combination of disembodied intelligences he controlled was in trouble. There was a solution, but it remained as an equation in the mind of just one man, the wanderer Dumarest. And Dumarest hated the Cyber. T...

  • Breakaway

    Space 1999 - 1

  • Eye of the Zodiac

    Dumarest of Terra - 13

    Working for his next passage in his desperate quest, Earl Dumarest befriended a young man who said his home world was called Nerth. Nerth? Earth? New Earth, perhaps? Or even the old and original world, the one Dumarest sought. In any case, a...



  • Collision Course

    Space 1999 - 2

  • Alien Seed

    Space 1999 - 3

  • Jack of Swords

    Dumarest of Terra - 14

    ABOUT...DUMAREST AND HIS QUEST FOR LOST TERRA "It has something like the fascination of the Howard sword-and-sorcery stories, though Dumarest is no dumb barbarian...Good adventure. The whole series has been fun to read:' --Lester Del Rey, Analog ...

  • Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun

    Dumarest of Terra - 15

    Earl Dumarest, now a vanquished and captive mercenary, is offered the choice of surrender to the fearsome Cyclan or the chance of freedom by the beautiful and ruthless Lady Delphine. The risks are terrifying - but has Dumarest a choice?Intent on find...

  • Haven of Darkness

    Dumarest of Terra - 16

    As guardian of the Universe's freedom from the domination by the Cyclan, Earl Dumarest is ruthlessly hunted by their agent, Cyber Broge, as he searches for the fortune necessary to finance his epic quest for Terra - the planet of his birth. Hunter an...

  • Prison of Night

    Dumarest of Terra - 17

    DUMAREST Urgent message from Central Intelligence to local Cyber agent: "You will proceed to the planet Zakym with the utmost dispatch. Dumarest is not to be killed or his intelligence placed in danger. This is of utmost priority. Once found he is t...

  • The Quillian Sector

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    Dumarest of Terra - 19

    The Cyclan was the greatest concentration of intelligence in a thousand worlds--and yet Earl Dumarest continued to elude it. For too long. Bochner was the greatest hunter of a hundred worlds -- a man more than wise to the wiles of beasts and men. ...

  • Incident on Ath

    Dumarest of Terra - 18

    The Painting was dramatic, passionate, a work of genius. But Earl Dumarest was blind to its power.For there, in the background, were the features of cratered Luna, satellite of Earth, the fabled planet that Dumarest had sought through countless galax...

  • Web of Sand

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    Dumarest of Terra - 20

    There was only one way out of Harge: to find a singing jewel, the greatest prize on That world of sand dunes. But the jewels were hidden deep in the burrows of Harge's most vicious predator. Earl Dumarest could match wits with the implacable Cyclan...

  • Iduna's Universe

    Dumarest of Terra - 21

    It was touch and go for Earl Dumarest when the slavers of the Matriarchy of Onorldi struck his work camp. Had he not captured the Matriarch herself during the fight, it might have spelled his doom when the slavers triumphed. Because even though th...



  • The Terra Data

    Dumarest of Terra - 22

    Only Earl Dumarest himself believed that there was ever a planet called Earth. He had been seeking it a long time -- but nobody else at the crowded galactic centre believed in it. During his quest he had acquired some bits of information -- a Terrest...

  • World of Promise

    Dumarest of Terra - 23

    Ascelius was an academic world, whose primary business was teaching the knowledge of the thousands of worlds, and housing great universities and colleges, populated by students and scholars from all over the galaxy. Such a world was surely the place ...

  • Pawn of the Omphalos

    Fiction, Science Fiction, For Mark Carodyne, life was a gamble. That's why he came to Krait. Krait was dominated my a pulsing Omphalos. It filled the sky above. Would Mark save the planet from destruction by obtaining the data....

  • Nectar of Heaven

    Dumarest of Terra - 24

    The planet had two unique elements. One was that it produced the galaxy's most desirable hallucinatory drug. The other was that it was a stock broker's paradise.The world was split into rich men's holdings - and every hour, every minute these were be...

  • The Terridae

    Dumarest of Terra - 25

    DUMAREST Zabul was no ordinary world. It was a private religious sanctuary: location secret, visitors unwelcome. A world fanatically dedicated to one belief and one goal. The belief that mankind originated on a single world; the goal--to find it. ...

  • The Coming Event

    Dumarest of Terra - 26

    The Terridae believed the lost Earth was heaven and utopia combined. In their artificial planet, they moved slowly through the universe in search of it. And in their eyes, the rediscovery of Earth was to be the Event.Now they said the Event was comin...

  • Derai

    Dumarest of Terra - 2

    Still driven by his search for Man's fabled birthplace, Earl Dumrest accepts a commission to guard the Lady Derai, heiress to the proud House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive.On Derai's home planet, Dumarest had hoped to meet a living witness t...

  • Winds of Gath

    Dumarest of Terra - 1

    This is the tale of Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire, seeker of Man's forgotten home.Dumarest's search begins on the ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-d...

  • Toyman

    Dumarest of Terra - 3

    Space-wanderer Earl Dumarest is on the planet Toy to consult the giant computer which may contain information on the whereabouts of Earth, his lost home-world.But soon he realises Toy is a place that gives away nothing for free. Before Dumarest can g...

  • Kalin

    Dumarest of Terra - 4

    Many times, Dumarest's dream of Earth has almost cost him his life. As he journeys from world to world, restlessly moving outwards towards the edge of the galaxy where his goal lies, Dumarest must be alert, watchful. For there are new dangers - force...



  • The Jester at Scar

    Scar: a harsh, inhospitable world with a vicious and shifting population of prospectors, drawn from every corner of the galaxy by rumours of a miraculous golden spore.To this violent planet come two more travellers, ready to try their luck among its ...

  • Lallia

    Dumarest of Terra - 6

    Dumarest continues his restless wandering - combing the spaceways for an ancient and almost forgotten planet called Earth. Then, on a primitive world, he fights a giant mutant for the life of the lovely psychic Lallia - and wins a vital clue that cou...

  • Technos

    Dumarest of Terra - 7

    Dumarest has traced the lost planet of Earth to one remote corner of the galaxy, but he still lacks its precise co-ordinates.Somewhere on the cyber-dominated police-world of Technos lives the mysterious woman who can help him. And the only way to fin...

  • Veruchia

    Earl Dumarest, trans-galactic soldier of fortune, is still seeking his birthplace, the fabled planet Earth. On the distant, decadent planet Dradea, he meets the mysterious, mutant woman Veruchia. She selected him from the gladiators' arena to become ...

  • Earth Is Heaven

    All the signals seemed set at "go." For Earl Dumarest had found people who believed in the legendary Earth. He had found the coordinates of the Sun and its attendant planets. And he would have the starship with a faithful crew of colonists for whom E...

  • Melome

    Dumarest of Terra - 28

    "Welcome to the circus of Chen Wei! A spectacle of marvels culled from a thousand worlds! Things that will amaze you, amuse you, puzzle you, fill you with rapture! A feast for the eye and mind and one not to be missed!" Dumarest had been on innume...

  • Stardeath

    Ships occasionally disappeared in hyperspace, regrettable sacrifices to the luxury of faster than light travel. But now one of the lost ships has been found and the wreckage is enough to terrify even the most cold-blooded witness.The lucky ones on th...

  • Angado

    Dumarest of Terra - 29

    On Angado's planet, there was a man who knew the whereabouts of the lost Earth. Earl Dumarest, born on Earth, longed to find the way home. Because they were comrades in arms, Angado would help Earl find that man - for a price.For Angado was returning...

  • Symbol of Terra

    Dumarest of Terra - 30

    Clues from Angado, clues from the lady Govinda, all leading Dumarest on in his search for the lost Planet Earth. But first they lead him to a collector of ancient wisdom called Tama Chenault.But Chenault is not all that he seems, and Dumarest is forc...

  • The Temple of Truth

    Dumarest of Terra - 31

    In relentless pursuit of Earl Dumarest come the emotionless minions of the Cyclan. Seeking the body-switching formula which would make them masters of the universe, they must seize Dumarest alive to gain his secret.It all comes together on the world ...



  • Death God's Doom

    There was something eerie about the storm . . . The blizzard had risen too fast, the wind howling as if from the throat of a rabid dog . . .the entire world had turned into a featureless hell of ubiquitous white. A world in which Malkar knew himself ...

  • The Sleeping City

    From the opening reared a head, wide, flat, huge. Below it stretched a body beautiful with iridescent scales of gold edged with ruby. Nictitating membranes lifted over enormous eyes, deep, limpid pools of ancient wisdom, catching and reflecting the l...

  • Fantasy Annual

  • The Extra Man

    There were two. Rosslyn, the pilot, and Comain, the dreamer. Rosslyn died in space, frozen, preserved for two centuries until found and resurrected by a miracle of future surgery. Comain…? Comain remained on Earth, and crystallised his dreams, and ...

  • Moon Base

    The bases of the major powers are watching one another -- and waiting... But what bothers Britain’s Moon Base personnel most of all is the visit of a Royal Commission, sent to investigate expenditure. Travelling with the Commission, but under separ...

  • Space: 1999 Alien Seed

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    Based on the popular and classic science fiction television series Space: 1999. Space: 1999 Alien Seed is an original story novel written by well-known and acclaimed British author E.C. Tubb.

    Space: 1999, created by Gerry Anderson, was first broad...

  • The Space-Born

    Far from Earth, on a ship carrying the 13th and 14th generations of descendants from the original crew, life is short. You are born, learn the tasks needed to keep the ship running, help breed and train the next crew - and your death is ordered by th...

  • The Best Science Fiction Of E.C. Tubb

    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...

  • Dead Weight

    Sam Falkirk, Captain of the World Police and stationed at the World Council building in New York, has a special interest in investigating the sudden and inexplicable death of Angelo Augustine, the brother of his girl friend. A messenger employed by t...

  • Death is a Dream

    Britain, years after the Debacle, and a new London has risen phoenix-like from near the ashes. Though Londoners have retained their physical purity through the ruthless destruction of generations of mutants, man is no longer the same, and society cru...



  • Fear of Strangers

    Instead of the welcome they'd expected, the returning crew of the first interstellar spaceship were kept in space, imprisoned in their craft. In quarantine, as carriers of a deadly alien disease! When the prisoners escaped, the worried authorities hi...

  • Trail Blazers

    When a trail is needed to supply the meat-starved North and East, Gregg Halmar, veteran of the Civil War, is chosen as Trail Blazer. However, pushing through deserts and Indian territory means facing a constant gamble with death....

  • Footsteps Of Angels

    Empire builder Max Feyman had ruthlessly gained control of an invention called the 'zipdrive', a system of ultra-fast space travel. But his world is shattered when his daughter Celia, vacationing on the moon, is suddenly rendered unable to walk or sp...

  • The Price Of Freedom

    When his wife is murdered, victim of an assassin's bullet, businessman Dell Weston finds his life falling apart. Betrayed by his partner, he loses control of his company, and descends into the lower strata of a dog-eat dog society. Somehow, Dell mana...

  • Secret Of The Towers

    By order of the World Council, a vast chain of towers was being constructed across the globe. The people were told that the towers would provide free universal power from broadcast energy. When Statander, a member of the World Council, questioned th...

  • World in Torment

    Atomic war! Men had started the war, overriding the desires of their women and plunging the world into an orgy of destruction. Finally, when the vast armies of men had finally been shattered, women took over as rulers. Under successive Matriarchs,...

  • The Resurrected Man

    Captain Baron, space pilot, is forced to abandon his ship, waiting for a rescue that does not come. Eventually he dies in space, his body frozen and perfectly preserved. Five years later, he is found, and two doctors, Le Maitre and Whitney, restore h...

  • The Green Helix

    Over a dozen spaceships had disappeared into hyperspace, never to return. The lost vessels included the Jason, the Starbird, and the Invincible. Everyone assumed that they had fallen victim to some mechanical failure. But the mystery deepened when th...

  • The Freedom Army

    To escape war and suffering, humanity had allowed itself to take a drug that killed all emotion. But a small number of insurgents - including the returning astronauts from a mission to Mars - had refused to take the drug, and waged an armed rebellion...

  • Journey into Terror

    The first exploratory expedition to Pluto returns with only one crewman aboard-the Captain, Jules Carmodine. There is a profound mystery as to what has happened to the original crew: Carmodine is suffering from an amnesiac block, and is broken in hea...

  • Escape into Space

    The ship rose on a column of invisible, super-heated steam ejected at incredible velocity. The spread of the blast flattened everything in the immediate vicinity. The surrounding town was wiped out. Immediately on blast off the automatic pilot engag...

  • The Luck Machine

    "We talk of good luck and bad luck. We even wear, some of us, good luck charms and we tend to select certain lucky numbers if we enter a raffle. No, Norman, you can't tell me that we don't acknowledge the existence of something we call luck." The wo...

  • The Wall

    Kerron and his business associates, Chang and Forrest, were three of the richest men on Earth. Now old and approaching the end of their days, they were desperate to prolong their lives. And there was one man who seemed to possess the secret of immort...

  • Gath

    Planet Gath is a cruel, harsh place visited only as an intergalactic tourist attraction for its annual storm season. But then, THEY come: Dumarest - a man with a strange past and a threatening future; the old Matriarch of the plant Kund with her ward...

  • The Captive

    Don Thorpe, a desert-wise Westerner, is asked to undertake a mission for the Union forces to find the train laden with Californian gold which would buy arms for the beleaguered South. Don accepts the dangerous mission and on the way to Fort Gorman re...

  • Fifty Days to Doom

    The galaxy is at war, a war between the oxygen-breathing Terran Federation of worlds and the Ginzoes, chlorine-breathing aliens. Neither side dare attack the others' habitable worlds for fear of reprisals: the war has become a matter of spaceships fi...

  • The Death Zone

    Earl Dumarest accepts a commission to guard Lady Derai, of the House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive. But there, his hopes of meeting a living witness to planet Earth are dashed. The man, along with his fellow villagers, has mysteriously disap...

  • The Stellar Legion

    Wilson, an unwanted waif of the generation-long war of unity, spends his boyhood in forced labour and persecution. Rebelling, he is sent as a convicted murderer to the newly colonised penal world of Stellar. He survives to win promotion in the Stella...

  • Starslave

    On several settled worlds of the Earth Confederation, towns had been utterly destroyed by attacking alien vessels -- exploded into flaming ruin, and fleeing people reduced to smears of blood and bone.And so they sent for Captain Kurt Varl, the only ...

  • Mirror Of The Night And Other Weird Tales

    The mansion was set against a wall of trees, an old house that squatted like a decaying beast beneath the sagging eaves. A relic of a bygone era, apparently empty and with no sign of life, it provides a refuge for Stephen and Diana. But the house als...

  • The Ming Vase and Other Science Fiction Stories

    Cartwright House is a secret government military project. The men and women living there have been given the best food, comfort, and recreational facilities. But they're prisoners, forbidden to leave and closely guarded. For these people have very sp...

  • To Dream Again

    As an officer in the United Nations Law Enforcement Agency Ralph Mancini was dedicated to the worldwide War on Drugs, employing all the resources of the U.N., whilst working with the national and international police forces. But now an insidious new ...

  • The Wager

    In the world of the future, Captain Mason is worried. A man has been decapitated--and no one can find the head! Mason arrests a suspect, but while the latter's in custody, three more victims are killed in the same grisly fashion. If only Mason can fi...

  • Alien Dust

    ALIEN DUST relates the first thirty-five years of the colonization of Mars. It is a poignant story of Man against Nature. No individual hero or heroine marches steadily through its pages. There is no triumphal ending-only faint hope. Instead, against...

  • Beyond the Galactic Lens

    Three times had the scientific genius, Kaifeng, slipped through the hands of the men of FATE - and three times those equally fanatic guardians of the fragile structure of interworld peace had tracked him down again.But now Kaifeng had something that ...

  • Child of Earth

    There should have been soft breezes scented with entrancing perfumes, the soothing warmth of a golden sun, lakes of wine and mountains of grain, trees adorned with fruit and bud and flower, shrubs bearing a profusion of glittering gems. Herbs and spi...

  • City of No Return

    For countless years the enigmatic city of Klagan had rested beneath the racing moons of ancient Mars. Forbidden, guarded, sheltered in the cup of the Blue Mountains and surrounded by waterless desert. It rested there, a place of a thousand rumours an...

  • Dynasty of Doom

    Wilner pointed, his finger trembling as he stared at the screen. "There, ships, hundreds of them! A space fleet!" These were the vessels which had vanished in space over many years. This was the centre of hyperspace, the resting place of derelict st...

  • Earth Enslaved

    THROUGH THE TERROR TOROIDIt could have been a black hole - one of those terrifying rips in space that defy all laws. That it was artificial in origin did not make it any less deadly. Worst of all, that strange extra-galactic torus was drifting into a...

  • The Eater of Worlds

    THE VAULT IN THE VALLEYOn a far semi-desert world, shunned by trade routes, and unattractive to star travellers, there is a barren and isolated valley. Dominating this valley is a great time-eroded Sphinx-like construction - a mass known to the few w...

  • Enemy of the State

    With the renewal of the Cold War, the Security Services in the West were jittery: a terrorist could now, as never before, destroy a fantastic amount of material, production potential, and infrastructure. Civilization had grown so unbelievably complex...

  • Enemy Within the Skull

    FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOYF.A.T.E.Alien scientists had learned how to release the ravening beast-instincts buried in the recesses of the human brain from the far distant past.Now they were willing to sell their knowledge to the highest bidder in exchan...

  • The Galactiad

    The things from beyond the Milky Way galaxy found the intelligent races of our universe amusingly slight. To them, possessors of vast cosmic power, the strivings of various humanoids to outdo each other were a source of contemptuous entertainment.The...

  • Galaxy of the Lost

    FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOYF.A.T.E.Captain Kennedy, Earth's trouble shooter carries the Banner of Terran against the unknown sciences and alien psychologies of a thousand worlds.The crack in the cosmos that has to be sealed!FATE is the space hero series...

  • The Genetic Buccaneer

    THE HAND OF DR KAIFENGBy tampering with the genes of humanity to create a super-race - that was the ideal of many scientific Utopians.By tampering with the genes of humanity to create a super-army - that was a dream of many military commanders.By tam...

  • The Gholan Gate

    DOORWAY TO UTOPIA"Beyond that curtain of darkness lies paradise."That was the promise of the doorway known as the Gholan Gate, a doorway so ancient that its makers had vanished millions of years before the first Earthly life crawled out of the primev...

  • The Ghosts of Epidoris

    THE DAUGHTER OF KAIFENGThe world was haunted. Every sunset the natives went home, locked their doors, and pulled down the window blinds. Ghosts didn't scare Kennedy. As an agent of FATE, it took more than superstition to shake him. But Epidoris was t...

  • Jewel of Jarhen

    FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOYF.A.T.E.Captain Kennedy lay between life and death after his mind had been hurled a million years into the past.To break the spell of the Jewel of Jarhen which held the Captain in its thrall, three members of FATE had to pit a...

  • Journey to Mars

    All Verrill wanted to do was to get to Mars, to Port Mercham where a ship was getting ready to take the Big Jump to the stars. But he was stranded on Venus, without money, papers, or weapons, with nothing but a keep-sake between him and starvation an...

  • Mimics of Dephene

    QUARANTINED PLANET"On Dephene, the native life -form is peculiar and unique. All protoplasmic life is equal to and one with the mimics." On screen, the shape changed, altered into the shape of a man.Then it changed. It shrank, dropped, lifted a snout...

  • Monster of Metelaze

    "Destiny awaits the world of Metelaze. Mighty will be our future. To us will come the races of the galaxy. To us will come the wealth of a universe.

    "Too long have we rested beneath the Terran heel. Very soon now we shall strike off the chai...

  • Planet of Dread

    ENTER DR. KAIFENG . . .Of all possible enemies, Cap Kennedy had yet to cross swords with the legendary master of galactic villainy, Dr Kaifeng. In the struggle for the mind of the tyrant of Papan, they finally met - and Kennedy was the loser.There wa...

  • The Primitive

    Leon Vardis' whole life was keyed to revenge.

    If it couldn't be wreaked on the peasants who had burned his mother as a witch on the primitive planet of Rhome, then it could, most gloriously could, be let loose on the contemptuous sophisticat...

  • The Return

    Dumarest had learned in the hard school of experience and he came equipped with certain attributes. He had very fast reflexes, he carried a knife and knew how to use it, he wore travellers garb which, because of the metal mesh buried within the therm...

  • Seetee Alert!

    FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOYF.A.T.E.Seetee is the most dangerous substance in the universe - bring it into contact with the most stable of normal material and it explodes with enormous energy and destruction.When Captain Kennedy and his crew, the top men...

  • Slave Ship from Sergan

    HUMAN VS INHUMANTo the reptilian mind - especially the intelligent type of planets like Sergan and Obrac - the lives of others were as nothing to the need for status.To the feline mind - especially to the clever advisor of the master of Sergan - the ...

  • Spawn of Laban

    IN THE "DOC" SMITH TRADITIONThe planet was fine for big game hunters. And it was the tradition there that one must have a trophy before one could call oneself truly a man.If that were all, it would hardly interest Cap Kennedy because his trophies con...

  • Stellar Assignment

    Trapped in an economic rat-race, Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination -- an attribute which brought him to the notice of Paul Trevainen. Trevainen made Kevin an offer he couldn’t resist: find a billionaire’s daughte...

  • A World Aflame

    PILLAR OF FIREMillions of Years before humanity and other intelligent races learned to roam the Milky Way, the Zheltyana had created an empire among the stars - rose, triumphed, and vanished. All that remained were a few ruins, some artifacts, and th...

  • Tomorrow

    Three men had broken into the laboratories of Atomic Power Inc., killing three guards and stealing a new formula for the control of atomic fission. They had inside help: someone had given them the guard schedule and a plan of the laboratories. The on...

  • The Wonderful Day

    "Then the Devil had smiled. The door of Hell cracked open and, for a while, the churches were full of desperate creatures pleading to the God they had ignored for help and protection. The door of Hell had opened wider and, when it finally closed, som...

  • Star Haven

    Three days after asking the Captain of the Earth mothership to land his party of colonists on the planet Hyperon, Commander Williams has reason to worry. He's assumed that there'll be records left by the 500 original settlers that'll tell him what's ...

  • TheMing Vase

    Inside Cartwright House, a secret Government military project takes place. Men and women are well cared for, with every leisure facility. But they are prisoners, forbidden to leave. Their defection to, or capture by, foreign powers could be catastrop...

  • Fires of Satan

    Imagine a day, not too far from today, when you pick up the newspapers to find them free of the usual accounts of crime, corruption, violence and war. There's no politics or politicians, no sporting results, speculation or scandal. There is only t...

  • Galactic Destiny

    In the far future, humanity has split into two groups: Folk and People. The Folk man the star ships, spending their entire lives in space. The People dwell on planets, only using the ships for travel between the worlds. A freak accident in No-Space c...

  • Atilus the Gladiator

    From the cold, misty shores of Britain, which the Emperor Claudius had invaded, Atilus Cindras was taken as a boy slave to work and fight for the greater glory of the Roman Empire. Eventually, he was sent to a gladiator school, and there trained to f...

  • Atilus the Lanista

    As a young boy Atilus Cindras had been taken from Britain to Rome as a slave, and trained in the gruesome arts of the gladiators. Fueled by his hatred for Rome, he'd risen to the top of his killing trade with his fierce and deadly skill, and won ...

  • Atilus the Slave

    Set against the immense decadence of Imperial Rome, the story of Atilus depicts the glory, the spectacle, and the blood-lust of the gladitorial games in all their savagery. In the third year of the reign of Claudius, a young boy, Atilus Cindras, watc...

  • Only One Winner

    Stanson's scheme was audacious in its scope: highjack a space liner, kill the passengers and crew, and then live off the rich pickings for years to come. They won't even have to leave the well-stocked craft--and the security forces can never ...

  • Temple of Death

    For ten years, Colin sweated, slaved, and eventually built-up a nice business on a dusty world called Mars. Ten more years and he'd have been able to retire a rich man. Five more years and he'd have put all worry behind him. He didn't get those five ...

  • Pandora's Box

    Written under the working title of "The Spore Menace" in 1954, Pandora's Box was not actually published until 1996. Many of the ideas in this novel are seminal, even prophetic. Tubb was one of the very first sf writers to realize the potential danger...

  • The Life Buyer

    Marcus King, ruthless entrepreneur and commercial giant, was a man obsessed. His obsession-staying alive! He used his millions to buy life from the bodies of others. Then someone devised a highly scientific plan to kill him-only for King to survive ...

  • The Living World

    The Cradle was the starting point of the strange alien race that had colonised the galaxy while Man was still a cell floating in a warm primeval sea, From here must have surged the expanding tide of life that had built the enigmatic ruins, the constr...

  • Hell Planet

    Between the frozen wastes of the night side and the searing inferno of the dayside, the Twilight Belt held all that was Human on the tiny world of Mercury, Hell Planet of the Solar System. A strange world, airless, subject to the alien distortions of...

  • Atom War on Mars

    Earth and its colonies on Mars and Venus are ruled by an authoritarian post-World War III world state which plans to take control of a new method of space travel when it has been perfected by a Martian scientist. When they fail to secure the inventio...

  • Zenya

    Dumarest of Terra - 11

    Earls Dumarest's quest for his homeland - the legendary planet Earth - had been long and dangerous. Trekking across the galactic wastelands of the Milky Way, he had been pursued and hindered at every step by the deadly Cyclan.Now, just as his search ...

  • Alien Impact

  • Argentis

    This colorful, action-packed space opera tells of rival factions, including Earthmen and an enigmatic and fanatical Venusian, who voyage through space in a race to find the derelict ship of an ancient civilization, a Venusian Elder Race....

  • Fugitive of Time

    Starships are grounded, interrupting vital inter-stellar commerce, all the highly-developed industries have stopped, man turns to the primitive sources of animal fat and wood for light and heat. With civilization waning, the young scientist Kleon, se...

  • I Fight for Mars

    Fighting for Mars means a battle with the Lobants, a formidable enemy, robot yet human, whose origins are shrouded in a terrifying Martian mystery. Ace rocketship pilot John Delmar, on a dangerous and unlicensed space light to the fabulous planet, so...

  • Menace from the Past

  • The Metal Eater

    It was the last planet left for men to conquer - a planet rich in priceless urillium ore, yet no man laid a finger on this wealth that was for the taking.

    For the planet Vendor could not be conquered. Space-men tried time and time again, but...

  • Planetfall

    Somewhere on Venus lies the wreck of Space Patrol XX15, which holds a secret vital to Earth's security. Only one man knows where the wreck lies: Rex Carson. But he has been unjustly banished to a terrible Jovian penal colony, where he organizes a rev...

  • Planetoid Disposals Ltd

    Tubb, originally writing as Volsted Gridban, bridges the gap between physics and metaphysics, conceiving speeds superior to that of light, transport by dematerialisation and re-assembly of atoms in a remote sector of Space-time - practical, possible,...

  • Venusian Adventure

    Venus was a goldmine, a planet rotten with mineral wealth and unexploited resources, and tales filtered back to Earth and Mars, were whispered in the Domes of Mercury and wondered at in the dives of the outer planets. Venus was new and strange and...

  • E.C. Tubb SF Gateway Omnibus

    A prolific author of hundreds of stories in the fields of SF, fantasy and westerns, E. C. Tubb, was best-known for his epic 33-volume Dumarest saga, a galaxy-spanning adventure series. Also active for many years in Fandom, he was both a founder membe...

  • Saturn Patrol

  • Reverse Universe

  • Twelve from Tomorrow

    Forces much greater than our own are hard at work…For the first time in ebook, a timeless collection of short stories from seminal science fiction writer E.C. Tubb! "His reputation for fast-moving and...

  • The Devil's Dictionary

    A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? … Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin’s Lamp and release a Jin...

  • Talk Not at All

    This brand new collection of E.C. Tubb's clsasic short stories presents 3 long tales sure to thrill readers: "Talk Not at All," "Subtle Victory," and "The touch of Reality." From the author of the classic Dumarest of Terra saga!...

  • Into the Empty Dark

    The dark between the planets is cold and empty, and filled with every kind of death--from the fast to the seemingly unending…...

  • Patient of Promise

    In a long career, Edwin Charles Tubb (1919-2010) published 120 novels, and 200 short stories, mostly science fiction, but including historical, detective, and westerns. Guest of Honor at the 1970 World Science Fiction Convention, some of his finest S...

  • Reward for a Hero

    The cause was a weakened combustion chamber which had allowed a shaft of flame to break loose from its confines. It was an accident -- a tragic accident in space -- that left John Hammond with a ruined body. But life goes on, with a little help from ...

  • Rockets Aren't Human

  • Second from the Sun

    Venus was a horror-world, a place of teeming, nightmare danger, yet with the danger went wealth, and in the Hotlands rested a secret. To find the secret was one thing: to get out alive was another matter. E.C. Tubb wrote the long-running Dumarest spa...

  • Man of Imagination

    The green fleck on the radar screen hadn’t altered in size for three days now and Lieutenant Polton was getting discouraged. “I can’t understand it,” he grumbled. “Police craft are supposed to be able to overtake anything in space. How come...

  • The Troublemaker and Other Stories

    Collected for the very first time are five long-lost vintage science fiction stories by a master of the genre.THE TROUBLEMAKERCurt Gregson is a Martian colonist who has saved for 10 years to raise his fare back to Earth. But when he breaks his leg in...

  • Secret Weapon and Other Stories

    This new collection by E.C. Tubb, a past master of science fiction, presents five classics of the genre:Secret Weapon - The secret military installation on the moon, with its missile capability to strike at aggressors on Earth, was a Sword of Dam...

  • Legal Eagle

    The law-books were thick, comprehensive -- and all written in Lurarian. Armstrong cursed as he tried to wade through them, and then gave up in disgust. His speaking knowledge of the language was excellent; he could even write and read it sufficient f...

  • Quarry

    Radford threw a folder on the firing-bench. “All right,” he said before the agent could protest. “I know that you’re overdue for a vacation, but it can’t be helped. Things are on the boil. The discovery of the Free Union has shot the status...

  • Upstairs

    Going to space -- going Upstairs -- was everyone's dream. But only the best made it. Only sometimes the best didn't want to go... A classic science fictiion tale by the author of the Dumarest series!...

  • Test Piece

    Stranded in space, his ship leading air, all power dead. It's quite a situation in which to find yourself. What was Jud to do -- except learn to hate? A classic science fiction story from the creator of Dumarest of Terra!...

  • Precedent

    “Tanner,” he called.“Hurry up, down there,” yelled the navigator. “Let’s get on our way.”“Tanner. Come down here.” Some thing in Manders’ voice brought immediate action.Tanner came scrambling down the tube, his face serious. “Wh...

  • We, the Brave

    The youngster was full of romance of space and admiration for his hero. But the hero couldn’t share his feelings....

  • The Warbirds

    WHO ARE THE WARBIRDS?Misfits mostly. Men who sought in the rush and tide of battle, an outlet for violent emotion. Society condemned them, yet admired their necessity. Cultures shunned them - yet gladly used their services. Wars there were, and wars ...

  • Assignment New York

    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy

    World-Wide Investigations on Madison Avenue, New York, is the world's largest detective agency. Headed by Mike Lantry, the agency will take any case, anywhere, at any time--including some strange dealings in even stranger parts of the world. But Lant...

  • C.O.D. Mars

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Three explorers returned to Earth after nine long years en route to Proxima Centauri and back. You would have supposed that they would have been greeted as the heroes of the century, feted, honored, rewarded. But Earth was rewarding the trio in a str...

  • The First Shot

    • / Western
    • Buy Buy

    Six years earlier the Circle Bar had been a thriving ranch with Rex Willard's father a happy man and his brother married to a beautiful woman. Now Rex saw an impoverished ranch, his brother missing, a drunken father and enemies all around....

  • The Gold Seekers

    • / Historical
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    Mark Young, ex-captain of the Confederate Army, agrees to guide a wagon train across the wastes to the goldfields of California. However, the wagon boss, Walt Shaw, begins to hate Young and his obvious attraction to pretty Shelia Blake. Discord and r...

  • The Possessed

    • / Suspense
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    In the remote Scottish Highlands there lurks a truly terrifying menace. It seems to be centred at a Government Research Establishment, but without definite proof of the exact nature of the menace, the authorities cannot act decisively. It was up to t...

  • Tide Of Death

    • / General Fiction
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    England was starving when cheap power could have saved her . . . power that would have been available if atomic research had not been forbidden by the watchful League of Peace . . . But two scientists chose to ignore this ban, and soon they launched...

  • The Winds of Gath: Dumerest of Terra Number 1

    • / Science Fiction
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E.C. Tubb has published 152 books.

E.C. Tubb does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Warbirds, was published in September 2021.

The first book by E.C. Tubb, Century of Manikin, was published in August 1972.

Yes. E.C. Tubb has 2 series.
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