Tubb wrote forewords for Alien Seed ( 2002 Eagle One edition) and Space 1999 Year One. His generation star-ship novel The Space-Born (1956) was adapted as a live drama for French television (possibly the first ever science fiction on French TV) as Le Navire étoile (1962). Tubb's 1955 short Little Girl Lost was adapted as an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery (NBC, 1972).

He also wrote stories for comic strips, and in 1968 he wrote two 12 page Joe 90 Magic Instant Picture Books for Letraset, his first 'novelisations'. He also wrote in other genres, including westerns and a series of Roman gladiator novels. He also wrote the Cap Kennedy series of 16 novels, written as Gregory Kern.

The series continued until 1985, with final volumes published in 19. Tubb is best known for his Dumarest Saga book series, which began in 1967 with The Winds of Gath. He was also editor of the first issue of its critical journal, Vector. He was an active member in science fiction fandom, and as co-founder by the British Science Fiction Association in 1958. He contributed short stories to both UK and UK science fiction magazines, and edited Authentic from 1956 to 1957, filling up pages with his own stories under various pseudonyms (one issue was written entirely by Tubb, including the letters column). His first novel under his own name was Alien Impact (1952). His first short story was published in New Worlds Science Fiction in 1951, and later that year his first novel, Saturn Patrol under the name King Lang. Edwin Charles Tubb was born in 1919 and died in 2010, having written around 130 novels and over 200 short stories.

Breakaway by E.C. Tubb