The green fleck on the radar screen hadn’t altered in size for three days now and Lieutenant Polton was getting discouraged.<P> “I can’t understand it,” he grumbled. “Police craft are supposed to be able to overtake anything in space. How come that Broman can hold his lead?”<P> “He’s in a souped-up sports model.” Captain Wheeland didn’t appear to be worried. “He torched his jets when he spotted us.” He leaned back in his chair. “Don’t fret, he’ll get what’s coming to him.<P>”...
The cause was a weakened combustion chamber which had allowed a shaft of flame to break loose from its confines. It was an accident—a tragic accident in space—that left John Hammond with a ruined body. But life goes on, with a little help from a doctor. But what if Hammond didn't want to live?
Venus was a horror-world, a place of teeming, nightmare danger, yet with the danger went wealth, and in the Hotlands rested a secret. To find the secret was one thing: to get out alive was another matter.<P> E.C. Tubb wrote the long-running Dumarest space opera series, as well as many other fine science fiction novels during his long career.
In a long career, Edwin Charles Tubb (1919-2010) published 120 novels, and 200 short stories, mostly science fiction, but including historical, detective, and westerns. Guest of Honor at the 1970 World Science Fiction Convention, some of his finest SF short stories were collected in The Best Science Fiction of E. C. Tubb (Wildside Press, 2003). "Patient of Promise" originally appeared in Authentic Science Fiction #82, July 1957 issue. This is its first appearance since then.
Cartwright House is a secret government military project. The men and women living there have been given the best food, comfort, and recreational facilities. But they're prisoners, forbidden to leave and closely guarded. For these people have very special powers. And then one man does escape, and Special Agent Don Gregson of the CIA is delegated to find him–and quickly. This is just one of four great stories of the aliens living among us, including «Trojan Horse,» «Agent,» and «The...
This brand new collection of E.C. Tubb's clsasic short stories presents 3 long tales sure to thrill readers: «Talk Not at All,» «Subtle Victory,» and «The touch of Reality.» From the author of the classic Dumarest of Terra saga!
A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? … Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin’s Lamp and release a Jinn who grants them a wish they might come to regret… The excavation of an ancient dolman releases an imprisoned evil… Could anyone trust the proprietor of the strange little shop who claimed to be a dealer in dreams? … The mission of mercy that caused a...
