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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. 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
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Alien Impact (Paperback)
E. C Tubb; Introduction by Philip Harbottle
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R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
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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 member of
the British Science Fiction Association and the first editor of its
critical journal Vector. This omnibus collects two of his out of
print classics, 'The Extra Man' and 'The Space-born', and
posthumous novel, 'Fires of Satan', completed before his death and
published now for the first time.
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated
by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection,
perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original
introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and
brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill. Stephen King
hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share
this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an
anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when
you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at
more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a
coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the
friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet
you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time
you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a
total stranger. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen
King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes
of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and
many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane
reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on
the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a
flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you
thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents: Introduction by Stephen King Cargo by E. Michael
Lewis The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Nightmare
at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson The Flying Machine by Ambrose
Bierce Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell Two
Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons Diablitos by Cody
Goodfellow Air Raid by John Varley You Are Released by Joe Hill
Warbirds by David J. Schow The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald
Dahl Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne The Turbulence Expert by
Stephen King Falling by James L. Dickey Afterword by Bev Vincent
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one side over to read
the second book), here's the twenty-sixth Wildside Double:
STAR HAVEN: A SCIENCE FICTION TALE, by E. C. Tubb. 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 happened to the men and
women who were dropped here a decade ago. But there ARE no
records--none that make any sense--and the colonists have just
vanished, abandoning homes, equipment, and personal effects. Is the
planet inimical to human life? The air's always pleasant, there are
no animals to threaten anyone, and the vegetation grows everywhere,
constantly producing edible fruit. In effect, Hyperon's a paradise
world. But if that's the case...where are the people?
THE TIME TRAP: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, by John Russell Fearn.
There were six people in millionaire Nick Clayton's
chauffeur-driven limousine when it leaves a country house to return
to London: Clayton himself; his girlfriend, Bernice Forbes; Horace
Dawlish, his driver; the unhappily married financier Harvey Brand
and his wife, Lucy; and the tragic socialite, Betty Danvers. But
the car never reaches its destination; instead, it drives thirty
miles down a country road--and just disappears And when the
travelers suddenly find themselves in an alternate reality, one
where time stands still, they begin to wonder if they'll ever
escape...THE TIME TRAP
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