
E.C. Tubb
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Reverse Universe
Originally published in 1952, Reverse Universe is another classic from pulp master E. C. Tubb, writing as Volsted Gridban.
Saturn Patrol
Originally written under the pseudonym, King Lang, Saturn Patrol is another fabulous tale from the prolific E. C. Tubb.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Menace from the Past
Originally published under Carl Maddox, one of E. C. Tubb's many pseudonyms.
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…
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…
Alien Impact
An adventure story set on a habitable Venus, populated by wild and fierce beasts, and humanoids with white skin, white hair, red eyes.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Possessed
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…
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…
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…
Tide of Death
England was starving when cheap power could have saved her . . . power that would have been available if atomic research had not been…
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…
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'…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
The Dumarest eBook Collection
This collection brings together the first six titles in E. C. Tubb's epic SF saga, Dumarest, containing: The Winds of Gath Derai Toyman Kalin The…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
Century of the Manikin
Peaceful, happy, non-violent . . . the perfect society? Or was it? As chief of Propaganda and Emotional Control, Joseph P. Lincoln had experience in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pawn of the Omphalos
For Mark Carodyne, all of life was a gamble. For money, for sport, for knowledge, for danger. That's why he had come to Krait for…
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…
Stellar Assignment
Trapped in the economic rat-race of the 21st century Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination: an attribute which brought him…
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…
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 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…
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…
Slave Ship from Sergan
HUMAN VS INHUMAN To the reptilian mind - especially the intelligent type of planets like Sergan and Obrac - the lives of others were as…
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…
Galaxy of the Lost
FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOY F.A.T.E. Captain Kennedy, Earth's trouble shooter carries the Banner of Terran against the unknown sciences and alien psychologies of a thousand…
Enemy Within the Skull
FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOY F.A.T.E. Alien scientists had learned how to release the ravening beast-instincts buried in the recesses of the human brain from the…
Jewel of Jarhen
FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOY F.A.T.E. Captain Kennedy lay between life and death after his mind had been hurled a million years into the past. To…
Seetee Alert!
FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOY F.A.T.E. Seetee is the most dangerous substance in the universe - bring it into contact with the most stable of normal…
Jack of Swords
Earl Dumarest continues his desperate search for his birthplace, and seems to be coming close to the mythical planet Earth. But his attention is temporarily…
Haven of Darkness
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…
Incident on Ath
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…
Prison of Night
ZAKYM: World of the night-rulers and the day people. A world teetering on the edge of nightmare. The Cyclan orders were clear - 'Find Dumarest.…
The Quillian Sector
The Cyclan was the greatest concentration of intelligence in a thousand worlds - and yet Earl Dumarest continued to elude it. For too long. Bochner…
Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun
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…
Eye of the Zodiac
In the course of a continuing quest for his legendary birthplace, Earl Dumarest befriends a young man who says his home world was called Nerth.…
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…
A World Aflame
PILLAR OF FIRE Millions of Years before humanity and other intelligent races learned to roam the Milky Way, the Zheltyana had created an empire among…
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…
Spawn of Laban
IN THE "DOC" SMITH TRADITION The planet was fine for big game hunters. And it was the tradition there that one must have a trophy…
The Genetic Buccaneer
THE HAND OF DR KAIFENG By tampering with the genes of humanity to create a super-race - that was the ideal of many scientific Utopians.…
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…
The Eater of Worlds
THE VAULT IN THE VALLEY On a far semi-desert world, shunned by trade routes, and unattractive to star travellers, there is a barren and isolated…
Earth Enslaved
THROUGH THE TERROR TOROID It could have been a black hole - one of those terrifying rips in space that defy all laws. That it…
The Ghosts of Epidoris
THE DAUGHTER OF KAIFENG The world was haunted. Every sunset the natives went home, locked their doors, and pulled down the window blinds. Ghosts didn't…
Nectar of Heaven
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…
Iduna's Universe
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…
World of Promise
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…
The Coming Event
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.…
The Terridae
Zabul was no ordinary world. It was a private religious sanctuary - location secret, visitors unwelcome. It was a world fanatically dedicated to one belief…
Web of Sand
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…
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 Terra Data
Only Earl Dumarest himself believed that there was ever a planet called Earth. He had been seeking it a long time - but nobody else…
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,…
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 Winds of Gath
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Temple of Truth
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,…
Symbol of Terra
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…