Phil Harbottle was nice enough to send these Birthday greetings for SF writer, E. C. Tubb. Thanks for sharing, Phil!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Tubb from Italy

• My dreams of space and future were fullfilled by your brilliant fantasy. Thanks for the long voyage
Paolo Guglielmi (reader)

• Traveling with Earl Dumarest is a dream come true. Happy birthday and ad majora, Mr. Tubb!
Renato Pestriniero (writer)

• I loved your works since the Fifties, and I love them more now. Thank you for all my dreaming!
Sergio Campagna (Reader)

• I was happy to hear of your 90th anniversary, and I want to send my warmest wishes to the man who gave me – in the far Fifties – the very first and most fascinating experiences in science fiction reading, giving me great dreams and helping my first steps in technological and fantastic imagination.
Vittorio Catani (Writer)

• My first science fiction reading, and the most memorable, was “City of no Return”. Thank you for writing it and fond wishes for your birthday. Hundreds of these books!
Luciana Orsi (reader)

• I still remember the summer evening of the late ’60s (I was just a little more than a child) in which I read for the first time one of your books: “The City of no Return”. Today, reading the Dumarest saga I found again the fascination and thrills of my childhood. So thank you for all those dreams and adventures and happy golden birthday, Mr. Tubb!
Carlo Pozzi ( reader )

• My first science fiction reading was a issue of “I romanzi del cosmo” containing “Lungo Viaggio nella Notte”, your magnificent story of generation ship. It was, I believe, the summer of 1959 (or 1960?). Fifty years later, I am happy to wish an happy birthday to the man who opened to me the road to the stars.
Enrico Silvestri (reader)

• A very very very happy birthday to a great of science fiction!
Franco Scotti (reader)

• Ninety years are a bit of eternity: that you reached with your wit and fantasy. Thanks!
Pierino Biella (reader)

• Happy birthday to a grand Sf author from one of his fond (neo) readers.
Simone Zambelli (Reader)

• Many Fantastic congratulations for this extraordinary life-goal. I hope to succeed in reading all your books ( or at least the greater part of them) before I myself…became 90 year old! Again,Happy Birthday from:
Paolo Orsucci (reader)

• Happy 90th birthday to the dean of the Dreammakers Guild!!!
Antonio Paglieri ( reader)

• Many Happy Returns, and here’s to many more! (Oh, and can you please write some more Dumarest books!) Best Regards,
David Adam

• Happy Birthday Mr.Tubb.
Francesco De Mauro (reader)

• Dear Mr. Tubb, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and thanks for all your works! Sincerely,
Riccardo Rizzo (reader)

• Dear Mr Tubb, Though we don’t like very much serial sci-fi, we quite loved your Dumarest Saga, for its distinctive sense of wonder, as well as for its main character, an utmost memorable hero in the worldwide science fiction. So on the occasion of your birthday, we wish you every happyness.Happy birthday to you Mr. Tubb!
Antonino Fazio & Antonella Liscio.(writer & illustrator)

• I’ve read a lot of books by your magnificent pen and I want to read more! Happy birthday for your first ninety years!
Giorgio PASCERINI (reader)

• Dear Mr Tubb, when I want to get inspiration for some far-out vision of the far future, I think of your stories and the universe itself discloses before my eyes!
Adriano Folli (new writer)

• Happy birthday Mr Tubb! You make me dream of adventurous pkanets with Dumarest in my youth. I liked your novels with the strength of fourteen years old in a hurry to leave earth behind and travel between stars, even if Italian translations of your books were few. I have read those few novels (three, for precision) many and many times. Now I have found Dumarest again in my middle age. Thanks to Elara I can follow Earl from his first step in Gath to the end of his marvelous travel. Thanks Mr. Tubb andf Happy birthday again.
Sergio Prandi (reader)

• Dear Mr. Tubb, this is a day of rejoyce for all the sf communities in the world. Long live and higher dreams to our splendid Dean of Wonder!
Debora Montanari (writer)

• My dream of old was to be the man who brought all Dumarest stories in Italy. Now this is true. Thanks and a wonderfully happy birthday.
Ugo Malaguti (editor)

• All science fiction is celebrating the 90th Tubb Anniversary. Next step, the 100th!
Sergio CANDELERO (reader)

• I am happy and honoured to be part of the team which will bring to Italian readers the whole Dumarest saga. This will give to old sf fans the chance to rediscover the magic of classic science fiction and to young ones the key of many wonders,unforgettable for life. Happy Birthday and many thanks for all those adventures and all that magic!
Armando Corridore ( Music Composer)

• I am proud to be the Italian translator of all Dumarest series. It’s a hard work, but very gratifying. I hope to see you personally in the future, and in the meanwhile “Prosit” with Marzemino, the wine of life. Happy birthday!
Arnaldo Dabbene (translator)

• I discovered your works with “City of no return”, one of the finest pieces of classic science fiction ever written. Now, as a fan and as a member of the staff of Elara, I’m discovering the fascination of Dumarest’s series. Thanks for your genius. And a memorable birthday!
Massimo Franceschi (manager)

• You are guilty, Mr. Tubb. Really guilty. Mi first science fiction reading was a Dumarest trilogy published long ago by Mondadori. There was born my passion for science fiction, therefore I began reading and, alas, writing. Ugo Malaguti published my works and the damage was done. Nevertheless, happy, happy birthday, Mr. Tubb!
Daniele Vecchi (writer)

• I’ve read thousands of books in Germany, were I was born, and in Italy, were now I live, and I like and love science fiction, a field in which I am proud to work. Some of the best fiction in the field are the ones you magnificently wrote and are writing. Thanks for this feat. And an happy birthday!
Gabriele Fischer (editor and sf reader)

• How fruitful and precious are your first Ninety Years! And we all hope a long and precious work for the future! Happiness & Joy!
Giuseppe Truzzi (reader)

• Ninety years are a good record for everyone. But when you think at all the work you have done and are doing it is a full life of dreams come true. Usually people bring gifts for a Birthday feast. You have brought gifts to us all for so many years, and others will bring for the future. Thank you and have a wonderful birthday, our beloved Mr. E. C. Tubb!
Carlo Brambilla (reader)

• I read DEAD WEIGHT in the Fifties, I re-read in your new fascinating version two years ago. Thanks for your wit and wiseness. And an happy birthday!
Sergio FAIELLA (reader)

• I’m a relatively young reader of science fiction, and many of the works I preferred were of one person, under various pen-names. Now I work with Elara in editing science fiction, and I have found with enormous joy that one of my favorites writers is also loved by my colleagues. Hope to read many more great books of science fiction in the next years… all under Tubb’s imprint! Have a very happy birthday.
Fabio Quarato (editor)

MANY MORE PHONED, MANY MORE ARE ARRIVING… THIS IS ONLY A SAMPLE OF OUR AFFECTION FOR YOU, MR. TUBB!