Russ Winterbotham – författare

Russell Robert Winterbotham (1904-1971)—who wrote as both R.R. Winterbotham and Russ Winterbotham (as well as the pseudonyms “J. Harvey Bond” for mysteries and “Franklin Hadley”)—began publishing in the late 1920s, though his didn’t make his science fiction debut until 1935, when “The Star that Would not Behave” appeared in Astounding. He published prolifically in most of the top magazines of the day, before settling into an action-adventure niche. From the fiction magazines, he moved into comics (writing for Red Ryder), comic strips (he penned “Chris Welkin, Planeteer” from its start in 1951 into the 1960s), and Big Little books for the Whitman Publishing Company (he wrote at least 60, including the Maximo the Amazing Superman series). All the while, he maintained his full-time job as fiction editor for Scripps-Howard NEA news service. In those days, newspapers published fiction, and many had a weekly insert that included full-length novels.

Although well regarded, his novels—which appeared under pseudonyms—failed to attract much fan attention, and he is largely forgotten today. Nevertheless, modern readers will enjoy his better-than-average writing and fun, action-adventure plots—often with clever twists.

Included in this volume are:

ORIDIN’S FORMULATHE MINUS WOMANDEAD MAN’S PLANETTHE THOUGHT-MEN OF MERCURYTHE MONSTER THAT THREATENED THE UNIVERSELONESOME HEARTSA LITTLE KNOWLEDGETHE WHISPERING SPHERESGENESIS!

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Imagination'' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time. While many of it contemporaries tried to push literary boundaries, ''Imagination'' focused on adventure and space opera, assuring its financial success. Here are some of the finest stories ever to appear in its pages. Over 200,000 words of pulse-pounding adventure fiction. ''Mr. Spaceship'' by Philip K. Dick ''The Mind Digger'' by Winston Marks ''Earth Alert!'' by Kris Neville ''Stopover Planet'' by Robert E. Gilbert ''Voyage to Eternity'' by Milton Lesser ''Spacemen Never Die!'' by Morris Hershman ''Brown John’s Body'' by Winston Marks ''Spillthrough'' by Daniel F. Galouye ''The Legion Of Lazarus'' by Edmond Hamilton ''The Beasts In The Void'' by Paul W. Fairman ''The Star Lord'' by Boyd Ellanby ''The Invader'' by Alfred Coppel ''Prison Of A Billion Years'' by C. H. Thames (Milton Lesser) ''Prelude To Space'' by Robert W. Haseltine ''Spies Die Hard!'' by Arnold Marmor ''The Minus Woman'' by Russ Winterbotham ''The Dictator'' by Milton Lesser ''Adolescents Only'' by Irving Cox, Jr. ''Goodbye, Dead Man!'' by Tom W. Harris ''Native Son'' by T. D. Hamm ''Dogfight—1973'' by Mack Reynolds ''Cancer World'' by Harry Warner, Jr. ''Mr. Chipfellow''s Jackpot'' by Dick Purcell ''The Graveyard Of Space'' by Milton Lesser ''There Is A Reaper'' by Charles V. De Vet ''Zero Hour'' by Alexander Blade ''Piper in the Woods'' by Philip K. Dick

What made the mass of this tiny asteroid fluctuate in defiance of all known physical laws? It was an impossible fact—but then, so was the girl who they knew couldn’t exist!