RR Winterbotham

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Russell Robert Winterbotham (as the author mostly RR Winterbotham or most recently Russ Winterbotham ; born  August 1, 1904 in Salina , Kansas , †  June 9, 1971 in Bay Village , Ohio ) was an American writer, writer of science fiction and western stories , which appeared mainly in pulp magazines , as well as from youth publications.

Life

Winterbotham's father was the doctor Jonathan Harvey Winterbotham, his mother Gertrude, née Bond. He studied at the University of Kansas at Lawrence , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1927 . From 1928 to 1943 he worked as a reporter and writer for various newspapers in the Midwest . In 1932 he married Nadine Schick, with whom he had a daughter (born 1936). From 1943 until his retirement in 1969 he was an editor and scenario writer for the Newspaper Enterprises Association in Cleveland . There he wrote the lyrics for a number of comic series , including the SF series Chris Welkin, Planeteer , which appeared in forty newspapers and has also been translated into Spanish .

Winterbotham began his writing career in the late 1920s as the author of a number of youth publications in the Big Little Books format . On the one hand, these were stories in the Better Little Book series by Whitman Publishing , with the titles published during the Second World War being predominantly patriotic and militaristic; on the other hand, non-fiction for young people in the Little Blue Book and Big Blue Book series by Haldeman- Julius Publications. He also wrote under a pseudonym or as a ghostwriter in this area and is said to have written over sixty Big Little Books for Whitman alone .

His first science fiction story, The Star that Would not Behave , appeared in Astounding in 1935 . From 1935 to 1943 he published three dozen short stories. Then there was a break of almost ten years. From 1953 other short stories and a number of SF novels appeared. Winterbotham is considered a competent but conventional author here. Two of his novels have been translated into German booklet series .

Winterbotham died in 1971 at the age of 66.

bibliography

Novels
  • The Space Egg (1958)
  • Man from the High Plains (1960)
  • The Wind of a Bullet (1961)
  • The Red Planet (1962)
  • The Men from Arcturus (1963)
  • The Other World (1963, as J. Harvey Bond)
  • The Puppet Planet (1964)
  • Planet Big Zero (1964, also as Franklin Hadley)
    • English: Big Zero Gate of Death. Pabel-Moewig (Terra Astra # 276), 1976.
  • The Lord of Nardos (1966)
    • English: The fight in the moon palace. Moewig (Terra Nova # 2), 1968.
Better Little Book (Whitman Publishing)
  • Tom Beatty, Ace of the Service, scores again (1937)
  • G-Man: breaking the gambling ring (1938)
  • Gene Autry, cowboy detective (1940)
  • Captain Robb of Dirigible ZR-90 and the disappearing Zeppelin (1941)
  • Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron (1941)
  • Maximo the amazing superman, and the supermachine (1941)
  • Red Ryder and the mystery of Whispering Walls (1941)
  • Convoy patrol: a thrilling story of the US Navy (1942)
  • Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron vs. the terror of the Orient (1942)
  • Joyce of the Secret squadron: a Captain Midnight adventure (1942)
  • Ray Land of the Tank Corps USA (1942)
  • Windy Wayne and the flying wing (1942)
  • Keep 'em flying USA: for America's victory (1943)
  • The ghost avenger strikes! (1943)
Little Blue Book (Haldeman-Julius Publications)
  • Curious and unusual deaths (1929)
  • Curious and unusual love affairs (1929)
  • Lindbergh, the hero of the air (1929)
  • The serious lesson in President Harding's case of gonorrhea (1931, with E. Haldeman-Julius, Booth Mooney, and Gerard Harrington)
Big Blue Book (Haldeman-Julius Publications)
  • How comic strips are made; why they have an enormous influence on American thought and custom (1946)
  • How to get ideas for popular stories: ideas, their treatment, how to develop them, and short cuts in fiction writing: what causes writers to get stuck and how to get ideas flowing again form the basis of this book (1947)
Short stories
  • The Star That Would Not Behave (1935)
  • The Psycho Power Conquest (1936)
  • The Train That Vanished (1936)
  • The Fourth Dynasty (1936)
  • The Last War (1936, as RR Botham)
  • The Saga of the "Smokepot" (1936)
  • Linked Worlds (1937)
  • Clouds over Uranus (1937)
  • Spore Trappers (1937)
  • Einleill (1937)
  • Specialization (1937)
  • The Secret of the Rocks (1937)
  • Shooting Room Only (1937)
  • Procession of Suns (1938)
  • Interplanetary Graveyard (1939)
  • The Second Moon (1939)
  • Madness on Luna (1939)
  • Disappearing Sam (1939)
  • The Geist of the Jungle (1939)
  • Captives of the Void (1940)
  • The Element of Logic (1940)
  • Cepheid Planet (1940)
  • Equation for Time (1940)
  • Message from Venus (1941)
  • The Monster That Threatened the Universe (1941)
  • Status Quo (1941)
  • Genesis! (1941)
  • Jitterbug (1941)
  • The Whispering Spheres (1941)
  • Dead Man's Planet (1941)
  • The Time Maker (1941)
  • Invent or Die! (1941)
  • The Thought-Feeders (1941)
  • Old Man Mars (1942)
  • The Thought-Men of Mercury (1942)
  • Oridin's Formula (1943)
  • The Winning of Wooha (1952)
  • Widows Must Mourn (1952)
  • With a Gun in His Hand (1952)
  • The Minus Woman (1953)
  • Lorelei of Chaos (1954)
  • Three Spacemen Left to Die! (1954)
  • Ten Minutes to Daylight (1954)
  • Lonesome Hearts (1954)
  • A Matter of Ethics (1955)
  • Gladsome Planet (1955)
  • Perfect Discipline (1955)
  • Problem Planet (1955)
  • The Scientific Approach (1955)
  • Just for Tonight (1955)
  • The Oldest Man in the World (1955)
  • Time's a Gorilla (1955)
  • Last One Standing (1955)
  • A Little Knowledge (1956)
  • The Man Who Left Paradise (1956)
  • Once Within a Time (1956)
  • Empty Guns (1956)
  • Not Much More than a Trigger (1956)
  • Up Tangle Creek (1956)
  • An Experiment in Gumdrops (1957)
  • East Is East ... (1957)
  • The Individualist (1957)
  • Extra Space Perception (1957)
    • German: Telepathy. In: Bert Koeppen (Ed.): Utopia-Magazin 20. Pabel, 1958.
  • Jinglebobs Wild (1957)
  • Gentleman Cowpoke (1957)
  • The Return from Troy (1957)
  • Report on a Backward Planet (1958)
  • The Variable Constant (1958)
  • Hossback Medico (1958)
  • The Tired Man (1958)

literature

Web links

Commons : Cover pages of Amazing Stories including issue 1939/4 with Madness on Luna  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Winterbotham, RR
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winterbotham, Russell Robert (full name); Winterbotham, Russ (alternative spelling); Bond, J. Harvey (pen name); Botham, RR (pseudonym); Hadley, Franklin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Salina , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1971
Place of death Bay Village , Ohio