Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935) was an American science fiction author. He wrote numerous short stories for pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s; most of his work in the 1930s appeared in Astounding and Wonder Stories, before his death from throat cancer.
He is most noted for the groundbreaking SF short story, "A Martian Odyssey," which presented a sympathetic but decidedly non-human alien, Tweel. Even more remarkable, this was his first story. Isaac Asimov has described "A Martian Odyssey" as "a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. Indeed, Twseel may the first creature in science fiction to fulfil Campbell's dictum, "write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man".
Weinbaum was born in Kentucky and attended school in Milwaukee, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1923 with a BS in Chemical Engineering.
A crater on Mars is named in his honor.
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Bibliography
Novels
- The New Adam (1939)
- The Black Flame (1948; ISBN 0964832003)
Short stories
- "Flight on Titan" (1935; found in ISBN 0883551527)
- "A Martian Odyssey"
- "Parasite Planet"
- "The Lotus Eaters"
- "The Adaptive Ultimate"
- "The Mad Moon"
- "Redemption Cairn"
- "Proteus Island"
- "The Ideal"
- "Pygmalion's Spectacles"
- "Shifting Seas"
- "Valley of Dreams"
- "The Worlds of If"
- "The Second Nova"
External link
- ISFDB entry on Weinbaum (http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Stanley_G._Weinbaum)Template:Sf-stub