Across five decades, under his own name and scores of pseudonyms, London-born author E.C. Tubb has published hundreds of novels and stories of science fiction and fantasy. He has won a dual reputation as a writer of colourful and exciting adventure novels, as well as thought-provoking and challenging works. Tubb is internationally known, and his work has been reprinted worldwide in more than a dozen languages.

He is famous for the long-running Dumarest of Terra series of novels - the galaxy-spanning saga of Earl Dumarest, and his search to find his way back across the stars to the legendary lost planet where he was born - Earth. Wildside Press are to reprint this classic series, and Tubb has recently written new short stories about Dumarest as a boy, which will be appearing exclusively later this year in the new Cosmos collection, Fantasy Quarterly. His other classic science fiction novels include The Space-Born, a definitive work on the generation starship theme, and Alien Dust, a powerful story of the colonisation of Mars.