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Escape into Space
The ship rose on a column of invisible, super-heated steam ejected at incredible velocity. The spread of the blast flattened everything in the immediate vicinity. The surrounding town was wiped out. Immediately on blast off the automatic pilot engaged hi-drive to avoid the attacking missile. This put the ship into negative mass with relation to the normal universe. It was now in M-space. The ship was self-contained. It could keep going till all her occupants died of old age. But where to? Proxima Centauri? Or maybe Alpha Centauri, Riga, perhaps, or Sirius! The universe is a big space. They hurtled on through space and time until they saw the planet, a cloud-hidden ball, as it hung in space a hundred thousand miles below the orbiting vessel. It had seas and clouds, mountains and ice-caps, islands and continents, It had a moon and a yellow G-type sun. Home? Was this their second chance?
- GenresScience Fiction
188 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
About the author
E.C. Tubb
383 books86 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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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
March 9, 2021
I really liked Escape into Space, it is my second Tubb read and it has a lot of what Planetfall (my first Tubb) was lacking. It's another simple classic but there's an intriguing plot with some clever characters, good environment descriptions and even a little bit of sciencing. The devious activities juxtaposed with the hopeful and ambitious motives was quite a cool theme.
The romance came across as awkward and at times a bit creepy so it didn't really work and didn't seem necessary.
Carl Sagan was given credit for the Drake equation, which made me imagine the author watching Cosmos while jotting down his notes for later reference.
The romance came across as awkward and at times a bit creepy so it didn't really work and didn't seem necessary.
Carl Sagan was given credit for the Drake equation, which made me imagine the author watching Cosmos while jotting down his notes for later reference.
July 9, 2021
Eine Zeitlang kann des Büchlein kurzweilig unterhalten. Der Schreibstil ist leicht zu lesen und der Autor bedient einige klassische Science-Fiction-Themen. Aber die Erzählweise, die Handlung und die Ausarbeitung der Figuren auf niedrigstem literarischen Niveau schmälern mit jeder weiteren Seite den Lesespaß. Wer das Werk kostenlos in einer Bücherkiste findet, kann es lesen – muss es aber nicht.
December 3, 2022
Kurzweilig und durchaus unterhaltend - mit mehr kann der kurze Roman aber sonst kaum glänzen. Schlichter Erzählstil, wenige Details, flache und stereotype Charaktere und eine unglaubwürdige Hintergrundgeschichte. Auf so wenig Seiten ist das aber auch einfach nicht zu bewerkstelligen.
Eine Lektüre, die nicht bereichert.
Eine Lektüre, die nicht bereichert.
August 22, 2013
It was an okay science fiction book a little confusing at times, but overall it had a good story and seemed to be more old school sci fi
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