Homeworld Press is publishing the 33rd (and, apparently, concluding) volume of E.C. Tubb‘s “Dumarest of Terra” series, Child of Earth, on 15 December. The $14.95 volume has cover art by Doug Klauba and an introduction by Chris Bentley, and is limited to 1,000 copies. The series launched in 1967, with Winds of Gath.
Following this publication, Homeworld expects to reprint the entire saga, starting in Summer 2009, in a series of omnibus columes containing 3-5 complete Dumarest novels. More information will appear on this page.
Wikipedia describes the series as “set in a far future galactic culture that is somewhat fragmented. Earl Dumarest was born on Earth, but had stowed away on a spaceship when he was a young boy.” Dumarest has traveled so far that he doesn’t know how to return home, and no one else has ever heard of his home planet. Through the series of self-contained adventures, he searches for clues to the location of Earth, which “someone or somethign has deliberately concealed… and the Cyclan, an organization of human beings surgically altered to be emotionlesss… seems determined to stop him from finding it.”