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Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

Born April 4, 1902
Louisville, Kentucky
Died December 14, 1935
Occupation Novelist, short story author
Genres Science fiction
Notable work(s) A Martian Odyssey
Influences
Influenced

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 - December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction A Martian Odyssey is a Science fiction Short story by Stanley G Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, Mary Shelley ( Née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August Edgar Rice Burroughs ( September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author best known for his creation of the jungle hero Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy John Stewart Williamson ( April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006) who wrote as Jack Williamson (and occasionally under the Pseudonym Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920 is an American mainstream, Fantasy, horror, Science fiction and mystery Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008 was a British Science fiction Author, Inventor, and Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. Richard Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American Author and Screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months. A Martian Odyssey is a Science fiction Short story by Stanley G Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled

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Biography

Weinbaum was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended school in Milwaukee. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, first as a chemical engineering major but later switching to English as his major, but contrary to common belief he did not graduate. Madison is the capital of the US state of Wisconsin and the County seat of Dane County. Chemical engineering is the branch of Engineering that deals with the application of Physical science (e On a bet, Weinbaum took an exam for a friend, and was later discovered; he left the university in 1923.

He is best known for the groundbreaking science fiction short story, "A Martian Odyssey", which presented a sympathetic but decidedly non-human alien, Tweel. A Martian Odyssey is a Science fiction Short story by Stanley G Tweel (also referred to as a "Tweerl" the exact pronunciation of the word is said to be impossible for humans is a fictional Extraterrestrial from the Even more remarkably, this was his first science fiction story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, The Lady Dances, to King Features Syndicate, which serialized the story in its newspapers in early 1934). Isaac Asimov has described "A Martian Odyssey" as "a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian John Wood Campbell Jr (June 8 1910 – July 11 1971 was an important Science fiction editor and writer Indeed, Tweel may be 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'. " Asimov went on to describe it as one of only three stories that changed the way all subsequent ones in the science fiction genre were written. It is the oldest short story (and one of the top vote-getters) selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America for inclusion in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964. Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA (ˈsɪfwə or /ˈsɛfwə/ was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight.

Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either Astounding or Wonder Stories. Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American Science fiction Magazine. However, several of Weinbaum's pieces first appeared in the early fanzine Fantasy Magazine (successor to Science Fiction Digest) in the 1930s, including an "Auto-Biographical Sketch" in the June 1935 issue. A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of Science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day Despite common belief, Weinbaum was not one of the contributors to the multi-authored Cosmos serial in Science Fiction Digest/Fantasy Magazine. He did contribute to the multi-author story "The Challenge From Beyond", published in the September 1935 Fantasy Magazine.

At the time of his death, Weinbaum was writing a novel, Three Who Danced. In this novel, the Prince of Wales is unexpectedly present at a dance in an obscure American community, where he dances with three of the local girls, choosing each for a different reason. Each girl's life is changed (happily or tragically) as a result of the unexpected attention she receives.

In 1993, his widow, Margaret Hawtof Kaye (b. 1906 in Waco, Texas), donated his papers to the Temple University Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University is a state-related public research University in Philadelphia. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Included were several unpublished manuscripts, among them Three Who Danced, as well as other unpublished stories (mostly romance stories, but there were also a few other non-fiction and fiction writings, none of them science fiction).

A film version of his short story "The Adaptive Ultimate" was released in 1957 under the title She Devil, starring Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, and Albert Dekker. " The Adaptive Ultimate " is a Science fiction Short story about an experimental medical treatment gone awry Mari Blanchard was a voluptuous and exotic looking Femme fatale of 1950s and early 1960s Hollywood. Jack Kelly (born in Astoria Queens, New York, September 16, 1927 &mdash died November 7, 1992, in Huntington Albert Dekker ( December 20, 1905 &ndash May 5, 1968) was an American Character actor and Politician best The story was also dramatized on television; a Studio One titled "Kyra Zelas" (the name of the title character) aired on September 12, 1949. Studio One is a long-running American dramatic radio - television Anthology series, created in 1947 by the 26-year-old Canadian Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A radio dramatization of "The Adaptive Ultimate" was done on the anthology show "Escape" in the 1950s, yet for some reason Stanley Weinbaum was not credited as the author.

A crater on Mars is named in his honor. In the broadest sense the term impact crater can be applied to any depression natural or manmade resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body

Planetary series

All of Weinbaum's interplanetary stories (he wrote nine and began a tenth which was completed after his death by his sister Helen Weinbaum) were set in a consistent Solar System that was scientifically accurate by 1930s standards. The Planetary series of stories by Stanley G Weinbaum is series of short stories published in Wonder Stories and Astounding Stories in the 1930s which The birdlike Martians of "A Martian Odyssey" and "Valley of Dreams", for instance, are mentioned in "Redemption Cairn", and The Red Peri and the Venusian trioptes of "Parasite Planet" and "The Lotus Eaters" are mentioned in "The Mad Moon". As an adjective the term "martian" is used to describe anything pertaining to the Planet Mars. Redemption Cairn is a Science fiction Short story by Stanley G "The Red Peri" is a Science fiction Novella by Stanley G The Mad Moon is a Science fiction Short story by Stanley G Weinbaum that first appeared in the December 1935 issue of In Weinbaum's Solar System, in accordance with the then-current near-collision hypothesis, the gas giants radiate heat, enough to warm their satellites to Earthlike temperatures, allowing for Earthlike environments on Io, Europa, Titan, and even Uranus. A gas giant (sometimes also known as a Jovian planet after the planet Jupiter, or giant planet) is a large Planet that is not primarily TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Io (ˈaɪoʊ, or as Greek TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Europa (jʊˈroʊpə; or as TemplateInfobox Planet.--> Titan (ˈtaɪtən, or as Mars is also sufficiently Earthlike to allow humans to walk its surface (with training in thin-air chambers) unprotected.

Van Manderpootz stories

Three short stories deal with Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in "Newer Physics", Professor Haskel van Manderpootz, a supremely immodest genius who rates Einstein as his equal (or slight inferior). Albert Einstein ( German: ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n; English: ˈælbɝt ˈaɪnstaɪn (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 was a German -born theoretical In "The Worlds of If", Wells tests an invention that reveals what might have been; in "The Ideal", the professor creates a device that can show the image of a person's ideal (in Wells' case, his perfect woman); the contrivance of "The Point of View" allows one to see the world from another's perspective. In all three, Wells finds and then loses the woman of his dreams.

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Posthumous publications

Collections of stories and poetry

External links

A Martian Odyssey and Others is a collection of Science fiction short stories by author Stanley G Fantasy Press was an American publishing house specialising in fantasy and science fiction titles Lancer Books was a line of paperback books published in the 1960s and 1970s by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius The Red Peri is a collection of Science fiction short stories by author Stanley G Fantasy Press was an American publishing house specialising in fantasy and science fiction titles
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