Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (born in 1902, dead the December 14th 1935) was a writer states-unien of Science-fiction.

Life and works of Stanley G. Weinbaum

Born in the Kentucky, it went to school to Milwaukee in the Wisconsin. It entered then to the University of the Wisconsin, studied chemical engineering there, but did not leave there graduate. It attended Charles A. Lindbergh there, which, like, did not obtain its diploma to him. Following a bet, Weinbaum passed an examination in the place of a friend and was discovered; he refused to reinstate the university in 1923.

In Milwaukee, it takes part in the meetings of the “Milwaukee Fictioneers”, a group of a score of full-time writers or part-time, among which one finds Robert Bloch, Ralph Milne Farley (with which it collaborated on several occasions), Ray Palmer, which was promoted editor association of Amazing.

Although it started to write very young person, its literary career was short, but nevertheless influential. Its first history, " the Martian Odyssey " , was very noticed at the time of its publication in July 1934. It describes for the first extraterrestrial resolutely a sympathetic nerve and without aggressiveness, but perfectly not-human time, Tweel. Isaac Asimov considered this news as one of the three stories which changed the science fiction, " A history with the John W. Campbell, before Campbell". And in fact, Tweel is undoubtedly the first creature of science fiction to satisfy the proposal of Campbell: “a creature which thinks as well as a man, or even better than a man, but not like a man”.

The majority of its texts were published in the Thirties by magazines like Astounding, Wonder Stories Magazine, or the Fanzine Fantasy Magazine (which succeeded Science Fiction Digest). A Autobiographical Esquisse of Stanley G. Weinbaum appeared in the number of June 1935 of Fantasy Magazine. It is one of the two texts where it refers to Charles A. Lindbergh. Weinbaum also contributed to the drafting of a history with multiple authors (Round-Robin), The Challenge From Beyond, which appeared in the number of September 1935 of Fantasy Magazine.

At the time of its death, Weinbaum wrote a novel (out of the field of the science fiction) which remained unfinished, Three Who Danced. In this history, the Prince of Wales attends a ball in an obscure American community, and it decides to dance with three young girls of the place, choosing each one of them for a different reason. The remainder of the novel describes the way in which the life of each one of them is modified (in good or evil) consequently of the unexpected interest that it caused in the Prince.

A film was drawn into 1957 from its news the Ultimate Adaptation, under the title She Devil, with Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, and Albert Dekker.

He wrote also three novels whose most known, the black Flame, appeared in 1948 with the Fantastic Rayon in a translation of Georges H. Gallet which was republished in 1952 at Albin Michel. He described an post-apocalyptic company there, and is composed of two stories, the Paddle of the flame and the black Flame which put in scene, at two very distant times, the character of Margaret d' Urbs. In the first part, it refers malicious to Charles A. Lindbergh, estimating that it existed forever. The second part, which seems it was written before the first, appeared in version shortened in the known American magazines under the name of " pulps ".

In 1993, a copy carbon of the manuscript of the version " longue" was found, with good number of the manuscripts of Stanley Weinbaum, in a trunk preserved at Denver, Colorado, by the grandson of his widow. This version was republished in the United States, without the first part. The trunk of Denver was entrusted by its widow, Margaret Weinbaum Kay, with the Temple University of Philadelphia, which ensures the conservation of it. The donation includes/understands several manuscripts ever published, of which " Three Who Dances" and several new stories (of the stories of love, the fiction and the non-fiction). The photography which figure at the head also comes from this trunk.

Weinbaum died of a Cancer eighteen months after the publication of " the Martian Odyssey ". In 1973 one gave his name to a Cratère of the planet Mars.

The Solar system of Stanley Weinbaum

All the interplanetary stories of Weinbaum (he wrote nine and outlined a tenth of them which was finished after his death by his/her sister Helen Weinbaum) proceed in a solar system which appeared coherent with the ell of the scientific knowledge of the Thirties. The Martians similar to birds of " The Martienne" Odyssey; and of " The Valley of Rêves" , for example, are also mentioned in " Cairn of Rédemption" , and the trioptes Vénusiens which appear in " The Parasite" Planet; and " Lotophages" are also mentioned in " The Folle" Moon;. In the solar system of Weinbaum, in accordance with knowledge of the time, the gas giant radiate enough heat to heat their satelliteset to make them profit from temperatures close to those to the Earth. Consequently, one finds environments livable on Io, Europe, Titan, and even Uranus. Mars and Venus Venus resembles the Earth sufficiently so that human beings can move there without protection.

Works

Novels

  • The Lady Dances (1933 King Features Syndicate), under the pseudonym of Margin Stanley)
  • Without Love (1933, not published)
  • Three Who Danced (1935, not published)
  • Mistress Of Money (1934, not published)
  • Girl in Coils (not published)
  • Don' T Tel. Tony (not published)
  • The Love Mode (not published)
  • She Tried to Be Bad (not published)
  • For Love gold Money (not published)
  • New Adam ( The New Adam , 1939, written about 1926)
  • The Dark Other or The Mad Brain (1950 Fantasy Close, written about 1927-1928)
  • the black Flame (The Black Flame, novel in two parts) (1948-1952 for the French translation)

Short novels (" novellas")

  1. the black Flame

    1. the Paddle of the flame Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1939
    2. the black Flame Startling Stories January 1939

News " shorts stories")

  • the Ultimate Adaptation Astounding Magazine November 1935 (under the pseudonym of John Jessel)

  • At the edge of Infinite the Thrilling Wonder December 1936
  • the Circle of Zero Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1936
  • Escape on Titan (Flight one Titan) in 1/35 Astounding Magazine January 1935
  • the Ideal Wonder Stories September 1935
  • Lotophages (The Eaters Lotus) Astounding Magazine April 1935
  • the Insane Moon (The Mad Moon) Astounding Magazine December 1935
  • the Martian Odyssey (Martian Odyssey has) Wonder Stories July 1934
  • the Valley of the Dreams ( Valley Of Dreams) Wonder Stories November 1934
  • the Planet Parasitizes (Planet Parasite) off Astounding Magazine February 1935
  • the Planet of the Doubt (The Planet off Doubt) Astounding Magazine October 1935
  • the Point of view of Wonder Stories January 1936
  • the Island of Protée Astounding Magazine August 1936
  • the Glasses of Pygmalion Wonder Stories June 1935
  • Perished Red the (The Red Peri) Astounding Magazine November 1935
  • Cairn of the Redemption (Cairn Redemption) Astounding March 1936
  • the Revolution 1950, also published in the USA under the titles The dictator' S daughter , The dictator and Revolution off 1960 (in an edition of… 1950!) Amazing Stories (with Roger Sherman Hoar under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley) October-November 1938
  • Shifting Seas Amazing Stories April 1937
  • Smothered seas Astounding Magazine January 1936
  • Marées of the Moon (Tidal Moon) Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1938 (written by Helen Weinbaum, his/her sister, on the basis of groundwork of Stanley)
  • Worlds of If Wonder Stories August 1935

Synopsis

  • Feeling Girl

Poems

  • Graph Fantasy Magazine September 1936

Other Texts

  • The Lost Battle, The Mercury (1917)

  • Autobiographical Draft of Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fantasy Magazine June 1935
  • The Challenge from Beyond, Fantasy Magazine September 1935: literary Round-Robin in collaboration with Murray Leinster, Edward E. Smith, Donald Wandrei and Harl Vincent.
  • Yellow Slavic, True Gang Life February 1936 (with Roger Sherman Hoar under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley)
  • The King' S Watch, or The Green Glow off Death, republished by error in 1994 by Eric Leif Davin, which believed that the history had never been it, with an introduction of Robert Bloch, of which it was the very last writing. Unknown initial publication, published in Ace Detective and Mystery Stories in July 1957

Novels

French Romance of Weinbaum:

  • the Black Flame - the fantastic Ray N°36 - News testaurée and integral edition, Editions of the Golden age, 2007.

Anthologies

Anthologies Frenchwoman of the stories of Weinbaum:

  • a Martian Odyssey and Other Stories of Science fiction , Editions of the Golden age, 2007.

  • the Perished Red one and Other Stories of Science fiction , Editions of the Golden age, 2007.

American Anthologies of the stories of Weinbaum:

  • The Best off Stanley G. Weinbaum , Ballantine, 1974

  • Dawn off Flame: The Stanley G. Weinbaum Memorial Volume, Conrad H. Ruppert, 1936
  • has Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Bruise , Hyperion Press, 1974
  • has Martian Odyssey and Others , Fantasy Press, 1949
  • has Martian Odyssey and Other Classics off Science Fiction , Lancer, 1962
  • The Red Peri , Fantasy Press, 1952

British Anthologies of the stories of Weinbaum:

  • The Black Heart , Leonaur Publishing, 2006

  • Interplanetary Odysseys , Leonaur Publishing, 2006
  • Other Earths , Leonaur Publishing, 2006
  • Strange Genius , Leonaur Publishing, 2006

Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum available in English language

In the form of texts:

  • Project Gutenberg in Australia

  • has off Martian Odyssey

  • Valley Dreams
  • The Mad Moon
  • Parasite Planet
  • The Lotus Eaters
  • The adaptive Ultimate
  • The Worlds off Yew
  • The Ideal
  • The Point off View
  • The Circle off Zero
  • Shifting Seas
  • Proteus Island
  • The Brink off Infinity
  • Tidal Moon
  • Pygmalion' S Spectacles
  • Redemption Cairn

In audio format:

  • Dawn off Flame

External bonds

References

  • Stanley G. Weinbaum on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • Courte biography of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Tachyon Publications
  • the film “She Devil” on the Internet Movie Dated Base
  • Courte biography by George C. Willick
  • Bibliographie by George C. Willick
  • Couverture from number 15 of Avon Fantasy Reader illustrating " The Man, the Maid, and the temptation off Saturn" ([[Flight one Titan])]. See the site of association Noosfere

French works available

  • '' the Black Flame '' (restored integral version, stitched volume, including '' the Paddle of the Flame '') by the Editions of the Golden age
  • '' the Black Flame '' (restored integral version, hard-bound volume, including '' the Paddle of the Flame '') by the Editions of the Golden age
  • '' a Martian Odyssey, and Other Stories of Science fiction '' (stitched volume) by the Editions of the Golden age
  • '' a Martian Odyssey, and Other Stories of Science fiction '' (hard-bound volume) by the Editions of the Golden age
  • '' the Perished Red one, and Other Stories of Science fiction '' (stitched volume) by the Editions of the Golden age
  • '' the Perished Red one, and Other Stories of Science fiction '' (hard-bound volume) by the Editions of the Golden age

English works available

  • The Black Flame (long version, not including Dawn off Flame) by Tachyon Publications
  • works of Stanley G. Weinbaum republished in English at Leonaur Editions
    • Interplanetary Odysseys
    • Other Earths
    • Strange Genius
    • The Black Heart

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