In a remote part of Kansas, test pilot Jack Fayburn tests the experimental XDW-49 aircraft for Darling Aircraft Corporation. Somewhere at the edge of space, he encounters something mysterious—a "space egg" that smashes through the cockpit plexiglass and pierces his pressurized suit. When he returns to Earth, he is not the same man. He's withdrawn, aggressive, and now possesses super-strength and a super-human healing ability. Bullets don't stop him. Jack's condition spreads. Photographer Bob Reeve, Dr. Felix Maynard, and a small group of survivors must stop Jack and his partner Ruby from transforming all of humanity into the same kind of alien-possessed creature. In the end, Bob appeals to Jack's humanity, calling out to the shred of the original man still inside, and Jack responds—sacrificing himself to save the world. Blending 1950s sci-fi paranoia with a classic monster-on-the-loose narrative, The Space Egg is a fast-paced, atmospheric pulp thriller that embraces the charming absurdity of its premise.
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About the Author
Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was a prolific American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction. Born in Salina, Kansas, he worked as a fiction editor for the Scripps-Howard NEA news service while writing a staggering volume of material on the side. He published under his own name as well as the pseudonyms "J. Harvey Bond" for mysteries and "Franklin Hadley". His literary career was remarkably broad; he authored instructional pamphlets and over sixty "Big Little Books," including Maximo, the Amazing Superman, and wrote scripts for the Red Ryder comic strip. He made his science fiction debut in 1935 with "The Star that Would not Behave" in Astounding magazine and published several other sci-fi novels, including The Red Planet and The Men from Arcturus
