Stanley Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was Weinbaum's second published story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, The Lady Dances, to King Features Syndicate under the pseudonym Marge Stanley), and remains his best known. It was followed four months later by a sequel, "Valley of Dreams". These are the only stories by Weinbaum set on Mars. Early in the 21st-century, nearly twenty years after the invention of...

Dixon Wells is testing an invention that can tell you how your life would have turned out if you'd made a different choice. Now you can have the answer to what if.

If you're going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. „The Planetary Series" includes ten stories set on worlds of Earth's solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians and The Red Peri and the Venusian trioptes. Written in the...

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902-1935) was an American science fiction writer. 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. Included in this volume are: THE DARK OTHER A MARTIAN ODYSSEY VALLEY OF DREAMS THE IDEAL PYGMALION'S SPECTACLES THE WORLDS OF IF THE POINT OF VIEW GRAPH SHIFTING...

Dixon Wells discovers that seeing the world from another's perspective doesn't produce the results he may have expected.

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. Set on Venus, the story focuses on Hamilton 'Ham' Hammond, an American trader who lives in the Venusian Hot lands in the late 21st century. After his home is destroyed he sets out to reach the American settlement of Erotia. On his way he becomes involved in an altercation with Patricia Burlingame, a British woman who accuses...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. This story the third story of Weinbaum's to feature the characters of Hamilton 'Ham' Hammond and Patricia Burlingame. In this instalment the pair travel to Uranus to explore its north pole where they encounter bizarre flora and fauna. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing...

This is a classic science fiction novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. This is the only of Weinbaum's stories to be set on the planet Pluto, written only five years after the planet's discovery. The tale starts with a spaceship called Aardkin that gets boarded by the notorious pirate ship the Red Peri. One year on Frank Keene and astrophysicist Solomon Nestor crash land on Pluto and find themselves...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. It tells the story of an experimental medical procedure on a woman close to death. The procedure brings her back from the brink but gives her unexpected powers of adaptation, making her incredibly dangerous. The pair that created her must find some way of stopping her, but will they find a way to nullify her superhuman...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. This story is a sequel to Parasite Planet and continues the tale of Hamilton 'Ham' Hammond and Patricia Burlingame. The pair are now married and have been commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute to explore the night-side of Venus. They discover a species of highly intelligent plants that appear to have no survival instincts...