Book description
This is the tale of Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire,
seeker of Man's forgotten home. Dumarest's search begins on the
ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the
Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-death at stormtime.
Victory could give Dumarest his first clue to the whereabouts of the
planet he fled from as a child - an obscure world scarred by ancient
wars, which lies countless light years from the thickly populated centre
of the galaxy; a world no-one else in the inhabited universe believed
exists. Earth, the birthplace of Man. (First published 1967) Edwin
Charles Tubb was born in London in 1919, and was a prolific author of
SF, fantasy and western novels, under his own name and a number of
pseudonyms. He wrote hundreds of short stories and novellas for the SF
magazines of the 50's, including the long-running Galaxy Science
Fiction, and was a founding member of the British Science Fiction
Association. He died in 2010.
