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...

The time machine was a menace to civilization. It had to be destroyed! But how can the future destroy part of the past without altering the basis of the future?

Outpost 53 on Venus is collapsing. Waves of relentless Venusians hammer the defenses day and night while the surviving soldiers fight through exhaustion, paralysis, and fear. Communications are destroyed, reinforcements are months away, and every man at the outpost knows what capture would mean. There is only one desperate chance left: launch a tiny lifeboat toward Earth and hope someone receives the warning before the garrison is wiped out.Captain Paul Bonnet and Lieutenant Bill R...

Lonesome Hearts by Russ Winterbotham.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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!

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!

A drifting asteroid between Mars and Jupiter should have been nothing more than a temporary stop. Instead, it greets two spacemen with fields that glow, buds that fire back, and a path that leads to a sealed door bearing the mark of Earth. Someone has lived here. Someone has farmed this frozen stone. And someone has left a body standing guard in the cold.Inside the buried cabin, they meet Ghor, a pale, sharp-eyed figure who claims the asteroid as his birthplace. He has shaped alien...

The universe has learned how to eliminate crime, violence, and dissent—by removing the very instincts that create them. Earth has become orderly, peaceful, and utterly stagnant. When a living world hidden inside a cosmic abyss begins destroying every ship that approaches it, humanity faces a threat it cannot confront with force or unity. The monster does not negotiate. It does not retreat. And it does not share Earth’s definition of progress.Into this deadlock steps a man who shoul...

Mercury is no place for men. A narrow twilight strip separates blazing heat from endless night, and within that thin band of survival two explorers discover something no expedition ever reported—intelligent life that can reach directly into the human mind.Terry Hall senses the presence first: a cold intrusion in his thoughts, as if unseen fingers are searching through his memories. When the Mercurians reveal themselves, their strange civilization seems harmless enough—telepathic th...

Three Spacemen Left To Die by Russ Winterbotham - Disease contaminated their ship; any moment one of them might become infected and spray lethal sparks to the others. There was no cure—except prevention. And that meant — Three Spacemen Left To Die!Commander Al Andrews had closed and locked the energy-proof, neutralizing bulkheads against the creeping red glow that infected one quadrant of his circular space ship. Now he stood in the Control Center...

A Matter of Ethics written by Russ Winterbotham - Homer was a shy Faderfield bachelor; his visitor was a beautiful Pleiades girl. At any rate she was a girl, and Homer had a problem—A Matter of EthicsThe fly rod, the letter and the small jar of paint were, in a sense, half of the problem Homer Hopkins had to solve. The other half rested in his complex mind.Fader's Fadeless Formulae had offered him a position, not a job, to take charge of its resear...

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 ...