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R. R. Winterbotham

Lifespan
1904 – 1971
Nationality
American
Active
1940 – 1962
Works held
16

Russell R. Winterbotham (1904–1971) was a Kansas newspaperman who published widely in Astounding in the 1930s and returned to the magazines in the 1950s. Beyond SF he wrote at least sixty children’s ‘Big Little Books’ for Whitman, scripted comic strips including Chris Welkin, Planeteer, and turned out westerns and crime under pen names, a working writer of remarkable range and output.

The works

  1. 1962
    Cover of The red planet The red planet
  2. 1958
    Cover of The Minus Woman The Minus Woman
  3. 1956
    Cover of A Little Knowledge A Little Knowledge
  4. 1955
    Cover of A Matter of Ethics A Matter of Ethics Cover of Problem Planet Problem Planet
  5. 1954
    Cover of Three Spacemen Left to Die! Three Spacemen Left to Die!
  6. 1943
    Cover of Oridin's Formula Oridin's Formula
  7. 1942
    Cover of The Thought-Men of Mercury The Thought-Men of Mercury
  8. 1941
    Cover of Dead Man's Planet Dead Man's Planet Cover of Genesis! Genesis! Cover of Message from Venus Message from Venus Cover of The Monster That Threatened the Universe The Monster That Threatened the Universe Cover of The Whispering Spheres The Whispering Spheres Cover of The thought-feeders The thought-feeders
  9. 1940
    Cover of Equation for Time Equation for Time Cover of Lonesome Hearts Lonesome Hearts

Wrote across

1940s1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaFirst ContactHard SFColonizationSocial SFTime TravelPost-ApocalypticPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

H. Beam PiperNelson S. BondPhilip K. DickRobert Moore WilliamsRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweAlan Edward NourseAlfred Coppel

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettGeorge O. SmithStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterBryce WaltonNelson S. BondH. Beam PiperMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseFritz Leiber

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