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Russ Winterbotham (1904–1971)

Autor(a) de The Red Planet

43+ Works 238 Membros 2 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Obras por Russ Winterbotham

The Red Planet (1962) 47 exemplares
The space egg (1958) 46 exemplares
Planet Big Zero (1964) — Autor — 31 exemplares
The Other World (1963) 17 exemplares
The Men From Arcturus (1965) — Autor — 9 exemplares
The Whispering Spheres (2010) 4 exemplares
Lonesome Hearts 3 exemplares
The Lord of Nardos (1966) 2 exemplares

Associated Works

Science Fiction Omnibus (1952) — Contribuidor — 340 exemplares
Astounding Stories 1937 08 (1937) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Space Science Fiction, Spring 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No.1) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Astounding Stories 1937 07 (1937) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Astounding Stories 1937 01 (1936) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Worlds of If Science Fiction 37, December 1956 (Vol. 7, No. 1) (1956) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Imagination, April 1955 (Vol. 6 ∙ No. 4) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Science Fiction Stories May 1957 (1957) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

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Winterbotham, Russell Robert
Outros nomes
Winterbotham, R. R.
Bond, J. Harvey
Hadley, Franklin
Data de nascimento
1904-08-01
Data de falecimento
1971-06-09
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Salina, Kansas, USA
Local de falecimento
Bay Village, Ohio, USA

Membros

Críticas

In my quest to review books and authors form the Golden age of SF (40s, 50s and 1960s) I have found some jewels. Unfortunately, this is not one.

Winterbotham has wrote a least 5 SF novels and several short stories for the SF pulp magazines. If this book is representave then his work is only for adolescents.

This is a first contact story for ages 12 to 16. My son might like it. Even for that age it may be only 3 stars for average. For adults it's 2 stars at best.
 
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ikeman100 | Apr 7, 2018 |
Damn! That's a neat cover... If, as I did, you grew up playing with "Major Matt Mason" (From Mattel), you will not be able to resist this novel of the first manned Mars expedition.
This novel spends half it's time and most of it's energy on the murderous jealousy of the expedition leader who seems ready to kill the other four men in order to have the one woman astronaut for himself... Bit of a failure in the psychological testing there, I'd say.
When the astronauts land on a fairly believably depicted Mars (circa 1962) they strap on their spacesuits and their M-14 rifles - and go forth to meet the strange and hostile Martians. Yep, vegetation and possibly intelligent, if non-humanoid, Martians. Cool!
It's not a good novel by most measures, but I enjoyed it anyway.
… (mais)
 
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thingmaker | Jan 29, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
43
Also by
8
Membros
238
Popularidade
#95,270
Avaliação
½ 3.3
Críticas
2
ISBN
5
Marcado como favorito
1

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