Besides the Dumarest novels he was somewhat known in the early '70 for the Cap Kennedy books, written for DAW as by "Gregory Kern". But he was very prolific, publishing well over a hundred novels and even more short stories beginning in the UK SF magazines in the early '50s. Tubb (1919-2010) is by far best known for his Dumarest of Terra novels, which began in Ace Doubles in 1967, migrated to DAW when Donald Wollheim moved there, and concluded with a novel first published in French. That said, the writers were both English veterans - and, indeed, generally competent if uninspired producers of acceptable SF adventure. And indeed this review, the 100th, perhaps appropriately features a couple of awfully weak short novels.
But it must also be said that a lot of the stories published as Ace Doubles were downright crappy. the feeling that they give room for an awkward story length (25000 to 45000 words, say) the fact that they provided space for new writers to get published the sometimes goofy subject matter the fact that they could be a home for unpretentious adventure SF and their uncommon format. I retain an interest in Ace Doubles for an intersection of reasons. I started these on the wonderful old Usenet newsgroup .written back in the early 2000s. This is the 100th Ace Double review I've done. Ace Double Reviews, 100: Alien Sea, by John Rackham/ C.O.D.
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