British author E.C. Tubb died 10 September 2010 at his home in London. Born Edwin Charles Tubb in London on 15 October 1919, his first published sf was the story “No Short Cuts”, which appeared in New Worlds in 1951. His first novel appeared that same year: Saturn Patrol, by King Lang. His first novel under his own name was Alien Impact in 1952. Following that debut, he went on to write more than 200 stories and more than 100 novels, most of them space opera and sf adventure. Much of that output came under a wide variety of pseudonyms.
Perhaps best known for the more than thirty volumes of his Dumarest Saga—which began with The Winds of Gath (1967) and concluded with Child of Earth (2009)—he also wrote the Cap Kennedy series under the pseudonym Gregory Kern, and six Space: 1999 tie-in novels. His latest novel, To Dream Again, is still scheduled to appear next year.
Before becoming a professional writer, Tubb was a fan, and one of the founders of the British Science Fiction Association. He was a guest of honor at Heicon, the 1970 World Science Fiction Convention, in Heidelberg, Germany.
Tubb married Iris Kathleen Smith in 1944, and is survived by their two daughters, two granddaughters, and several great-grandchildren.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has an in-depth review of his life and work on this page.