Weinbaum’s worlds are eight tales of action, adventure, and alien discovery that revolve around the planets and moons of New Sol, a system redder and more compact than our own, but much like how our Solar System was imagined in the 1930s. We’ve updated Stanley G. Weinbaum’s original science fiction short stories into a new setting, a system where his dreams could really take place, not too different from how he first wrote them, in the not-so-distant future.
Killer jungles, strange fevers, clever and unmistakably alien aliens, frozen landscapes. Human men and women struggle to explore, survive, and make a living off these bizarre and often hostile worlds, with all the energy, zest, and risk-taking of the explorers of remote stretches of Planet Earth and the pioneering aircraft of the early Twentieth Century. But much stranger–much more unexpected.
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Contents
Foreword iv
Weinbaum’s Worlds vi
An Aresian Odyssey 1
Parasite Planet, Part I 36
Parasite Planet, Part II 45
Parasite Planet, Part III 56
Valley Of Dreams 77
Flight On Colossus 110
The Lotus Eaters 141
The Mad Moon 179
The Planet Of Doubt 209
Redemption Cairn 247
About the Author / Publisher 289
Over de auteur
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His first story, ‘A Martian Odyssey’, was published to great acclaim in July 1934, but he died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.He is best known for the groundbreaking science fiction short story, ‘A Martian Odyssey’, which presented a sympathetic but decidedly non-human alien, Tweel. Even more remarkably, this was his first science fiction story. Isaac Asimov has described ‘A Martian Odyssey’ as ‘a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. 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.
Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either Astounding or Wonder Stories. However, several of Weinbaum’s pieces first appeared in the early fanzine Fantasy Magazine. Weinbaum contributed to the multi-author story ‘The Challenge From Beyond, ‘ published in the September 1935 Fantasy Magazine. All of his works are now in the public domain.
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