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Dumarest of Terra #29
Angado
Angado (DUmarest of #29) BY TUBB
- GenresScience FictionFiction
159 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 7, 1984
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About the author
E.C. Tubb
382 books85 followersEdwin Charles Tubb was a writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. He published over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, and is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future.
Much of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used 58 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw. Tubb's Charles Grey alias was solely his own and acquired a big following in the early 1950s.
An avid reader of pulp science-fiction and fantasy in his youth, Tubb found that he had a particular talent as a writer of stories in that genre when his short story 'No Short Cuts' was published in New Worlds magazine in 1951. He opted for a full-time career as a writer and soon became renowned for the speed and diversity of his output.
Tubb contributed to many of the science fiction magazines of the 1950s including Futuristic Science Stories, Science Fantasy, Nebula and Galaxy Science Fiction. He contributed heavily to Authentic Science Fiction editing the magazine for nearly two years, from February 1956 until it folded in October 1957. During this time, he found it so difficult to find good writers to contribute to the magazine, that he often wrote most of the stories himself under a variety of pseudonyms: one issue of Authentic was written entirely by Tubb, including the letters column.
His main work in the science fiction genre, the Dumarest series, appeared 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.
Tubb was one of the co-founders of the British Science Fiction Association.
Much of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used 58 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw. Tubb's Charles Grey alias was solely his own and acquired a big following in the early 1950s.
An avid reader of pulp science-fiction and fantasy in his youth, Tubb found that he had a particular talent as a writer of stories in that genre when his short story 'No Short Cuts' was published in New Worlds magazine in 1951. He opted for a full-time career as a writer and soon became renowned for the speed and diversity of his output.
Tubb contributed to many of the science fiction magazines of the 1950s including Futuristic Science Stories, Science Fantasy, Nebula and Galaxy Science Fiction. He contributed heavily to Authentic Science Fiction editing the magazine for nearly two years, from February 1956 until it folded in October 1957. During this time, he found it so difficult to find good writers to contribute to the magazine, that he often wrote most of the stories himself under a variety of pseudonyms: one issue of Authentic was written entirely by Tubb, including the letters column.
His main work in the science fiction genre, the Dumarest series, appeared 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.
Tubb was one of the co-founders of the British Science Fiction Association.
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January 20, 2018
This was a good example of the Dumarest canon. All the standard elements were there: desperate battles, Dumarest as the stoic heroic icon, evil Cybers, honorable Brothers, treachery, ingenuity, a variety of planetary cultures.
For the run of the series, Dumarest has always been a manly man, and his loves and lusts have always been towards the beautiful women who were always throwing themselves at him. This was the first Dumarest book I can recall that had any hints of homosexuality in it. I think it was handled in a straightforward, accepting manner -- no condemnation, no abhorance, no titillation; it was just the way one character was. The Dumarest series are the only Tubb books I've read, so I don't know if this has come up elsewhere in his writing, so I'm impressed that he handled it so well.
There was one thing that really bugged me about this book. Always in the past, Dumarest has treated the Brothers with respect and courtesy. He might not agree with their methodology or be an adherent, but he respected what they did, their faith, and their convictions. Not so in this book. He was much more derisive and dismissive of them, though he was willing to use the Brothers for his own ends here. This seemed out of character for him and was a flaw in the book.
For the run of the series, Dumarest has always been a manly man, and his loves and lusts have always been towards the beautiful women who were always throwing themselves at him. This was the first Dumarest book I can recall that had any hints of homosexuality in it. I think it was handled in a straightforward, accepting manner -- no condemnation, no abhorance, no titillation; it was just the way one character was. The Dumarest series are the only Tubb books I've read, so I don't know if this has come up elsewhere in his writing, so I'm impressed that he handled it so well.
There was one thing that really bugged me about this book. Always in the past, Dumarest has treated the Brothers with respect and courtesy. He might not agree with their methodology or be an adherent, but he respected what they did, their faith, and their convictions. Not so in this book. He was much more derisive and dismissive of them, though he was willing to use the Brothers for his own ends here. This seemed out of character for him and was a flaw in the book.
May 9, 2020
Another formulaic story that flows quite easily
Usual stuff, desperation, survival, knife fights, women who fall in love with the heroes masculinity far to easy , the church, the pursuit by the Cyclan, all and more that comprises every Dumarest story. But for some reason they draw me in over and over again, like a scantily clad female waiting to be rescued. Bit sexist, I know but ...in the vein of these novels-quite apt.
Usual stuff, desperation, survival, knife fights, women who fall in love with the heroes masculinity far to easy , the church, the pursuit by the Cyclan, all and more that comprises every Dumarest story. But for some reason they draw me in over and over again, like a scantily clad female waiting to be rescued. Bit sexist, I know but ...in the vein of these novels-quite apt.
November 19, 2020
Full review in the last volume of the series.
December 29, 2012
One of the better of one of the best SF quest series. Earl Dumarest, doomed to wander the universe in search of the lost planet Earth, encounters Angado a soft living, naive and civilized man. Dumarest tries to teach him how to survive on a perilous planet before taking him home to suffer even more perils.
October 19, 2016
Are they getting better as the end gets closer or is it my imagination.
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