E C Tubb
Posted in BSFA, Science Fiction at 14:00 on 16 November 2010
I see from yesterday’s Guardian that the SF author E C Tubb died nearly two months ago. Wikipedia has quite a large entry for him and his work.
He was one of the select group of British SF authors who were published before the 1960s and was one of the co-founders of the BSFA.
Despite his prolific output -125 novels – if you had asked me I would have said that I owned none of them. I would have been wrong. I just checked my bookshelves and discovered a copy of his 1964 novel Moon Base. I read it so long ago, though, I’m afraid I can’t remember any details of it.
His was a name I always recognised, however. SF was such a small field in the 1960s you could not avoid it. His best known work was probably the Dumarest series of novels; 33 of them!
The Guardian obituary is appreciative.
E C Tubb, 15/10/1919-10/09/2010. So it goes.
Tags: BSFA, E C Tubb, Science Fiction
Richard Simms
18 November 2010 at 15:36
Unfortunately, The Guardian obituary includes a glaring error right at the end. Tubb was a widower, his wife having died some years before.
jackdeighton
20 November 2010 at 20:06
Thanks, Richard.