Nebula Science Fiction Number 36

[a:Edwin Charles Tubb 14053911 Edwin Charles Tubb https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra), an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. [a:Michael Moorcock 16939 Michael Moorcock https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1424079041p2/16939.jpg] wrote, “His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” Much of Tubb's work was written under pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He 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.As for the story itself, it sees two rival interior designers battling for a lucrative contract. Each takes different approaches, and have differnet ticks up their sleeves. However, the unexpected out-of-control growth of a symboitic moss from Venus sees the fate of one of them. A strange tale, from Tubb's inventive mind. Definably out of the ordinary and it shows how inventive Tubb could be. Worth a read, but hardly a high octane thrill a minute tale.You can grab a copy here.