Edwin Charles Tubb was a renowned British author, born on October 15, 1919, and passed away on September 10, 2010. He was known for his prolific writing in science fiction, fantasy, and western genres. Over the course of his career, Tubb penned more than 140 novels and over 230 short stories and novellas. He gained significant fame for writing the Cap Kennedy series, The Dumarest Saga, and Space 1999 series. Among these, The Dumarest Saga is the most celebrated, an epic SF saga that unfolds in the distant future. Many reviewers have noted that Tubb's reputation for creating vivid and fast-paced science fiction is unrivaled in Britain.\n \nTubb was known to have used a total of 58 pseudonyms during his writing career of over five decades. Some of his pen names include Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm, and George Holt. Some of these pseudonyms were also used by other authors, as they were publishers' house names. For instance, Volsted Gridban, Gill Hunt, King Lang, Roy Sheldon, and Brian Shaw were all used by Tubb, as well as other writers. However, his Charles Grey alias was solely his own, and he gained a significant following in the early 1950s.\n \nAs a young man, Tubb was an avid reader of pulp science fiction and fantasy. He discovered his talent for writing stories in this genre when his short story 'No Short Cuts' was published in New Worlds magazine in 1951. Tubb then opted for a full-time career as a writer, quickly becoming known for his prolific and diverse output. He contributed to many science fiction magazines of the 1950s, including Futuristic Science Stories, Science Fantasy, Nebula, and Galaxy Science Fiction.\n \nTubb's main work in the science fiction genre, The Dumarest Saga, was published from 1967 to 1985, with two final volumes in 1997 and 2008. His second major series, the Cap Kennedy series, was written from 1973 to 1983. In recent years, Tubb updated many of his 1950s science fiction novels for 21st-century readers. He was also one of the co-founders of the British Science Fiction Association.