
His writing ambitions had been born shortly before the Second World War when he became a fan of American science fiction pulp magazines. Tubb was appointed editor of Authentic Science Fiction in 1956, and edited it with great panache until its unnecessary demise in 1957.Įdwin Charles Tubb was born in London in 1919. Many of his short stories were reprinted in various "World's Best SF" anthologies, and his story "Lucifer" won the Europa Prize in 1972. Beginning in 1951, he published over 130 novels and more than 230 short stories in such magazines as Astounding/Analog, Authentic, Galaxy, Nebula, New Worlds,Science Fantasy, Vision of Tomorrow, and more recently in Fantasy Adventures. With his work translated into more than a dozen languages, EC Tubb was well known to readers of science fiction the world over.
