Problem Planet

audiobook

Problem Planet

by R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

EN·~27 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
1

Part 1

27:43

Description

A routine transport mission goes wildly off‑course when a sudden maneuver forces the crew to dump fuel and crash‑land on an obscure, uncharted world. The pilot, a young and pragmatic engineer, finds himself stranded with Senator Clive Littlebrook, a seasoned politician whose ego is as massive as his résumé. With their ship’s supplies limited and rescue uncertain, the two must quickly turn the barren landscape into a livable outpost.

As they trek through rolling hills, they discover a clear stream, abundant wildlife, and the skeletal remains of an ancient city—evidence that the planet once supported a civilization. Littlebrook instantly declares himself ruler, insisting on a one‑party autocracy while assigning the pilot every conceivable civic duty, from policing to sanitation. The pilot, more inclined to bend like a willow than break, humors the senator while secretly plotting how to survive both the environment and the imposed hierarchy.

What follows is a tense experiment in makeshift governance, resource management, and adaptation, as the pair confront the paradox of being both the rulers and the ruled of a forgotten world.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~27 minutes (26K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1955.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2021-10-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

1904–1971

A prolific pulp-era storyteller, he wrote science fiction, westerns, mysteries, and books for younger readers, building a career that stretched from magazine adventures to novels. His work appeared under both R. R. Winterbotham and Russ Winterbotham, and it reflects the fast-moving imagination of mid-20th-century popular fiction.

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