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The Troublemaker and Other Stories
The Troublemaker and Other Stories
The Troublemaker and Other Stories
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Published together for the very first time, five long-lost vintage science fiction stories by a master of the genre.

THE TROUBLEMAKER
Curt Gregson is a Martian colonist who has saved for 10 years to raise his fare back to Earth. But when he breaks his leg in an accident he misses his flight and is denied a refund. Medical bills plunge him into debt, at a crippling rate of interest. Bankrupt, he is caught in an economic trap working for the corporations which import essential materials from Earth. Embittered, he embarks on a fight to break the power of the corporations...but is the trap worse than what lies outside?

PERAC
A spaceship doctor is about to retire and return to Earth with his fiancée who has completed her teaching contract on a colonized planet. Whilst still in space, she contracts Perac, a rare and fatal incurable disease. The rules for dealing with cases of Perac are harsh and inviolable: total isolation and immediate destruction of the affected person and their body ejected into space...

CONFESSIONAL
It was a beautifully simple form of religion—the planet’s natives simply projected all their evil thoughts and their Leader fought the tangible evidence conjured up. But—add a party of Earth tourists ...

GIGOLO
All the off-world colonists wanted was to get back home to Mother Earth. The yearning and nostalgia became so intense that it almost developed into a national neurosis. Or so it seemed ...

UNWANTED HERITAGE
The tiny garrison on Venus had two objectives in view—survival and conquest. If they could survive the alien environment for five years, Earth would send colonists—but the Venusians had other ideas about conquest ...

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Release dateSep 15, 2020
ISBN9781005286521
The Troublemaker and Other Stories
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E.C. Tubb

The author of "Lucifer" — the inspiration for the film "57 Seconds" starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman — is best-known for his long-running "Dumarest of Terra" series, featuring a hapless, wandering protagonist searching for his home, the third planet from the sun. His is also known for his adaptations of the "Space 1999" TV-series, and his “Cap Kennedy” novels (writing as Gregory Kern.)In a sixty-year writing career he published over 120 novels, and 200 science fiction short stories in such magazines as Astounding/Analog, Authentic, Galaxy, Nebula, New Worlds, Science Fantasy, and Vision of Tomorrow.His first science fiction short story was published in New Worlds in 1951, and his first novel quickly followed the same year. His earliest novels were written under several pseudonyms (most notably Charles Grey) and were exciting adventure stories, written in the prevailing fashion of the early 1950s. Yet from his very first novel, his work was characterized by a sense of plausibility, logic, and human insight. These qualities were especially evident in his short stories, which were frequently anthologized, most notably by Judith Merrill and Don Wollheim in their World’s Best SF annual compilations. In 1970, Tubb was Guest of Honour at the 28th World Science Fiction Convention in Heidelberg, West Germany.‘Lucifer!’ received a Special Award for Best Short Story at the first Eurocon in 1972. The motion picture 57 Seconds, based upon "Lucifer," debuts in theaters in 2023 from Curmudgeon Films.His output included historical adventure, detective, and westerns, but he remained best known for his numerous science fiction novels, of which Alien Dust (1955) and The Space Born (1956) were acknowledged classics.Tubb continued to write dynamic new science fiction novels right up to his death; his final novel, "Fires of Satan," was published by Gollancz in 2013. New editions of his novels and collections of his best short stories continue to be published posthumously, and all of his books have remained constantly in print.

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