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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
About the author
E.C. Tubb
406 books88 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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February 6, 2026
I really enjoyed this installment, even though it largely feels like a detour from Dumarest’s main mission. The story focuses on his unlikely friendship with a fellow traveler—young, naïve, and a bit pompous—formed out of mutual desperation. It’s also quite shocking to see Dumarest’s luck finally falter in the arena. Along the way, the story offers a deeper and more intriguing look at the Brotherhood and what motivates them.
May 20, 2026
This DAW book from 1984 is the 29th novel in Tubb's Dumarest series, which had debuted from Ace in 1967. This one has a serviceable but uninspired cover by Ken W. Kelley, who chose to paint a guy wearing a red robe hopping out of a flying car rather than any of the intriguing and imaginatively described alien creatures or settings that Tubb so ably described. The series is the continuing saga of Earl Dumarest, who roams the spaceways searching for his lost home planet, Earth. He's pursued by the evil Cyclan, a group of computer-minded former humans who want a secret that only he possesses that will enable them to take over the galaxy. This one is pretty atypical in several ways. Earl has to fight in the arena, but loses, for example, and he encounters the Church Brotherhood but pretty much dismisses them as Pacifist losers rather than working with them. The title of many of the earlier books was the name of a female character with whom Earl has a relationship, but the Angado of this story is a gay man with whom Earl travels and befriends. Earl does meet a woman near the end of the book with whom he has a brief but passionate romance, but it's really Angado's story that's the focus. The ending is something of a cliffhanger, as Earl is still on Angado's planet but is headed off to find the man who may have information about Earth's location. It's one of the best of the later books in the series that I've read.
January 16, 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.
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.
September 30, 2026
review of
E.C. Tubb's Angado
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - September 29-30, 2026
According to the results of an online search, there're 33 titles in the Dumarest of Terra series - w/ the last one in 2008, decades after what I thought was the last one, 31 (1985). I doubt that I'll read the last 3, regardless of how much I may be engrossed in the hero's progress. Angado is # 29. I hardly took any reviewer's notes when I read this.
Once again, the Cyclan are on Dumarest's t(r)ail, this time he's faked his death very convincingly.
""No," Avro had seen enough. "When did they leave?"
""Five days ago," Cardor added, "A week after the accident."
"When Tron had died, and Valaban, and most important of all, Dumarest." - p 5
But, of course, Dumarest isn't dead & Avro eventually figures that out & the chase is back on again. Dumarest is on yet-another spaceship, w/ a roomie, & it appears that plague has broken out.
"It had broken out in lumpy protrusions. an attack shocking in the speed of its progression. The woman jumped up and backed from the table, others following, cards spraying from the gambler's hand as Nossak slumped over the table. Within seconds Dumarest was alone with the sick man in a circle of staring faces.
""Get the steward," said Lissek. "He'll know what to do. He's got drugs."
""Drugs, hell!" Cranmer was harshly aggressive. "Get the captain. That man's got plague!"" - p 20
Dumarest is presented as killing multiple adversaries in every story. Nonetheless, he's also shown as showing mercy & as having a strong ethical code. He never glorifies his ability to successfully defend himself via his enemy's death.
"Dumarest said, '"Did you hunt for food?"
""Of course not. It was for sport."
""Butchery, you mean. Killing for the pleasure of it. Standing in a hide and waiting for the beaters to drive the creature toward you. Waiting for it with a gun. What chance did it have?" Dumarest looked at his companion. "I've seen it. Spoiled bastards, rich, pampered, having fun. They don't see what they leave behind. The hurt beasts, wounded by too hasty a shot, dragging themselves away with their guts trailing after them. Some with broken legs or no leg at all. Animals blinded and left to starve. Hunting! Don't boast to me about hunting!"" - p 35
An ethic I share - although all of the meat I eat comes from the supermarket, meaning that I have other people do my killing for me - hardly anything to brag about.
A recurring feature in most, if not all, of these serialized novels is "Lowtown", the area where the poorest people live & struggle - more or less inevitably at the mercy (or lack thereof) of capitalist predators.
"A useless prayer and he knew it. Surgery could save the woman, cryogenic storage while new lungs were grown from fragments of her own tissue. Her body laved with selected antibiotics, strengthened with intraveous feeding, bolstered with supportive mechanisms. A long and tedious process even with the aid of slow time but she would live.
"All it took was money.
"Money Worsley didn't have. What no one in any Lowtown had. The stench which filled the air was the reek of abject poverty." - p 68
After many hardships that Dumarest gets him thru, the title character, Angado, gets back to his home planet where he's one of the aristocrats.
"Spall prating about the hardships of poverty—after experiencing Lowtown his complaints were both trivial and ridiculous. Plaskit and his talk of personal combat—a man who would never dare risk his skin against an armed opponent. Or even an unarmed one; his talk was based on long-distance viewing and the safe slaughter of helpless game. Crixus who spoiled the air with words appertaining to the idealistic existence to be found when living close to nature in the wild. Deakin Epstein, Spencer—all fools unconscious of their folly, posturing, gesticulating, making sly allusions, asking pointed questions." - p 140
All in all, yet-another Dumarest of Terra novel, much the same as most of the others. I enjoyed it.. but I don't recommend it b/c there's too much else out there that I like more. Still, the ethics & class struggle are enuf to justify reading it on their own & there's much more than just those 2 things.
E.C. Tubb's Angado
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - September 29-30, 2026
According to the results of an online search, there're 33 titles in the Dumarest of Terra series - w/ the last one in 2008, decades after what I thought was the last one, 31 (1985). I doubt that I'll read the last 3, regardless of how much I may be engrossed in the hero's progress. Angado is # 29. I hardly took any reviewer's notes when I read this.
Once again, the Cyclan are on Dumarest's t(r)ail, this time he's faked his death very convincingly.
""No," Avro had seen enough. "When did they leave?"
""Five days ago," Cardor added, "A week after the accident."
"When Tron had died, and Valaban, and most important of all, Dumarest." - p 5
But, of course, Dumarest isn't dead & Avro eventually figures that out & the chase is back on again. Dumarest is on yet-another spaceship, w/ a roomie, & it appears that plague has broken out.
"It had broken out in lumpy protrusions. an attack shocking in the speed of its progression. The woman jumped up and backed from the table, others following, cards spraying from the gambler's hand as Nossak slumped over the table. Within seconds Dumarest was alone with the sick man in a circle of staring faces.
""Get the steward," said Lissek. "He'll know what to do. He's got drugs."
""Drugs, hell!" Cranmer was harshly aggressive. "Get the captain. That man's got plague!"" - p 20
Dumarest is presented as killing multiple adversaries in every story. Nonetheless, he's also shown as showing mercy & as having a strong ethical code. He never glorifies his ability to successfully defend himself via his enemy's death.
"Dumarest said, '"Did you hunt for food?"
""Of course not. It was for sport."
""Butchery, you mean. Killing for the pleasure of it. Standing in a hide and waiting for the beaters to drive the creature toward you. Waiting for it with a gun. What chance did it have?" Dumarest looked at his companion. "I've seen it. Spoiled bastards, rich, pampered, having fun. They don't see what they leave behind. The hurt beasts, wounded by too hasty a shot, dragging themselves away with their guts trailing after them. Some with broken legs or no leg at all. Animals blinded and left to starve. Hunting! Don't boast to me about hunting!"" - p 35
An ethic I share - although all of the meat I eat comes from the supermarket, meaning that I have other people do my killing for me - hardly anything to brag about.
A recurring feature in most, if not all, of these serialized novels is "Lowtown", the area where the poorest people live & struggle - more or less inevitably at the mercy (or lack thereof) of capitalist predators.
"A useless prayer and he knew it. Surgery could save the woman, cryogenic storage while new lungs were grown from fragments of her own tissue. Her body laved with selected antibiotics, strengthened with intraveous feeding, bolstered with supportive mechanisms. A long and tedious process even with the aid of slow time but she would live.
"All it took was money.
"Money Worsley didn't have. What no one in any Lowtown had. The stench which filled the air was the reek of abject poverty." - p 68
After many hardships that Dumarest gets him thru, the title character, Angado, gets back to his home planet where he's one of the aristocrats.
"Spall prating about the hardships of poverty—after experiencing Lowtown his complaints were both trivial and ridiculous. Plaskit and his talk of personal combat—a man who would never dare risk his skin against an armed opponent. Or even an unarmed one; his talk was based on long-distance viewing and the safe slaughter of helpless game. Crixus who spoiled the air with words appertaining to the idealistic existence to be found when living close to nature in the wild. Deakin Epstein, Spencer—all fools unconscious of their folly, posturing, gesticulating, making sly allusions, asking pointed questions." - p 140
All in all, yet-another Dumarest of Terra novel, much the same as most of the others. I enjoyed it.. but I don't recommend it b/c there's too much else out there that I like more. Still, the ethics & class struggle are enuf to justify reading it on their own & there's much more than just those 2 things.
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.
February 22, 2013
A Name, a Mystery and Another Knife Fight
Angado is a late Dumarest novel, and it's a good example of how Tubb kept his long-running series fresh by shifting the focus to the people Earl meets along the way. The title character is bound up with Dumarest's fortunes in ways that become steadily clearer, and the relationship between them gives the book an emotional thread that some instalments lack.
The usual pleasures are all present. A vividly drawn world with its own customs and dangers, intrigue among the powerful, and those sudden, brutally efficient bursts of action in which Dumarest's skill with a blade decides everything. The Cyclan's long game continues in the background, adding a chill to every apparent stroke of luck.
As ever, it helps to know the series, and the formula is very recognisable by now. But Tubb's storytelling is tight, his characters are more rounded than usual, and the quiet melancholy of Dumarest's quest is as compelling as ever. Four stars.
Angado is a late Dumarest novel, and it's a good example of how Tubb kept his long-running series fresh by shifting the focus to the people Earl meets along the way. The title character is bound up with Dumarest's fortunes in ways that become steadily clearer, and the relationship between them gives the book an emotional thread that some instalments lack.
The usual pleasures are all present. A vividly drawn world with its own customs and dangers, intrigue among the powerful, and those sudden, brutally efficient bursts of action in which Dumarest's skill with a blade decides everything. The Cyclan's long game continues in the background, adding a chill to every apparent stroke of luck.
As ever, it helps to know the series, and the formula is very recognisable by now. But Tubb's storytelling is tight, his characters are more rounded than usual, and the quiet melancholy of Dumarest's quest is as compelling as ever. Four stars.
October 26, 2014
Are they getting better as the end gets closer or is it my imagination.
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