New Worlds Profiles: E.C. Tubb

# New Worlds Science Fiction, No. 91 (February 1960)

This issue features the concluding installment of Philip K. Dick's serial "Time Out of Joint." The primary novelette is Colin Kapp's "Enigma," about a nuclear bomb disposal squad racing against time to disarm a remote-controlled fusion weapon that has landed near a major British industrial complex during a tense atomic standoff. Four shorter stories follow: Derek Lane's "The Destiny Show," E.C. Tubb's "Survival Demands," Francis G. Rayer's "Static Trouble," and Alan Guthrie's "The Shrine." The editorial by John Carnell responds to reader correspondence debating the magazine's "Plot-Nots" editorial policy—recurring science fiction tropes to discourage—examining whether such restrictions are creatively limiting. A profile interview with author E.C. Tubb discusses how rapidly advancing real science has challenged the speculative role of science fiction writers.