Book description
There should have been soft breezes scented with entrancing perfumes,
the soothing warmth of a golden sun, lakes of wine and mountains of
grain, trees adorned with fruit and bud and flower, shrubs bearing a
profusion of glittering gems. Herbs and spices to provide freedom from
pain, a return to youthful zest, an end of aging and decay. Salves and
ointments and natural fungi to cure all physical ills. . . For this was
Earth, that planet of legend, the paradise for which all yearned and
hungered to find. The world of joy and beauty and riches beyond the
wildest dreams. Instead Earl Dumarest found a landscape of unremitting
hostility. Could this really be the fabled home world for which he had
spent his entire life searching . . . ? (First published 2008) 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.
