| Stanley G. Weinbaum |
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| 1902 births | |
| weinbaum, stanley g. | |
| 1935 deaths | |
| american science fiction writers | |
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BIOGRAPHY AND WRITING CAREER Weinbaum was born in Kentucky and attended school in Milwaukee . He attended the University of Wisconsin, studying chemical engineering, but contrary to common belief he did not graduate. On a bet, Weinbaum had taken an exam for a friend and was later discovered; he left the university in 1923. 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 remarkably, this was his first 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 the story as one of only three stories that changed the way all subsequent stories in the Science Fiction genre were written. Most of Weinbaum's work that was published in his lifetime appeared in '' Astounding '' and '' Wonder Stories ''. A Crater on Mars is named in his honor. BIBLIOGRAPHY Novels
Short stories
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