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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The Lost Master - The Collected Works - Stanley G. Weinbaum(ePUB) Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) This collection contains all of the published fiction of Stanley G. Weinbaum , with the exception of one poem. At least, all of the published fiction I could confirm existed. As usual, the bibliography was compiled from many different sources, and is as complete as I could make it. If you are aware of anything published, or even written, by Weinbaum that is not listed here, please let me know at [email protected] . Unless more of his work turns up, there likely won’t be an update to this collection (other than the one poem that isn’t here). Enjoy. Gorgon776. A Word From The Publisher. Without Gorgon776's tremendous work in gathering, scanning, OCRing and HTMLizing the source material, this collection would not be possible. Because of his preparation, other than the need to rename embedded images, conversion to ePUB was relatively easy. For this edition, we have added Sam Moskowitz's biography of Stanley G. Weinbaum. If you have any questions of comments please visit my Rarities section on Demonoid at pm me. [COLOR="Red"] I was finally able to upload it/COLOR] This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work. LibriVox: Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Available now from LibriVox and narrator Gregg Margarite comes the Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum . Gregg has a smoky voice and a terrific recording setup – this makes this collection a super-solid listen! Start with the first story A Martian Odyssey which is Weinbaum’s most famous tale. It’s a classic of alien human interaction. Isaac Asimov says of it and of Weinbaum: “With this single story [ A Martian Odyssey ], Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him.” It is also argued that this is the first story to satisfy Astounding editor John W. Campbell’s famous challenge: “Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man.” Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 6 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4 Hours 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: LibriVox.org Published: January 13, 2009 Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story A Martian Odyssey which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including three stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. 1. A Martian Odyssey By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 58 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Early in the twenty-first century, nearly twenty years after the invention of atomic power and ten years after the first lunar landing, the four-man crew of the Ares has landed on Mars in the Mare Cimmerium. A week after the landing, Dick Jarvis, the ship’s American chemist, sets out south in an auxiliary rocket to photograph the landscape. Eight hundred miles out, the engine on Jarvis’ rocket gives out, and he crash-lands into one of the Thyle regions. Rather than sit and wait for rescue, Jarvis decides to walk back north to the Ares. 2. Valley of Dreams By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 53 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] A sequel to A Martian Odyssey – Two weeks before the Ares is scheduled to leave Mars, Captain Harrison sends Dick Jarvis and French biologist “Frenchy” Leroy to retrieve the film Jarvis took before his auxiliary rocket crashed into the Thyle highlands the week before. Along the way, the Earthmen stop at the city of the cart creatures and the site of the pyramid building creature for Leroy to take some samples. After picking up the film canisters from the crashed rocket at Thyle II, the two men fly east to Thyle I to look for signs of the birdlike Martian, Tweel. 3. The Worlds Of If By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 35 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 4. The Ideal By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 47 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 5. The Point of View By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 38 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 6. Pygmalion’s Spectacles By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 43 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902, in Louisville, Kentucky. He died on December 14, 1935, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of complications from throat cancer. During the years 1934-1936 the bulk of his work was published in Wonder Stories and Astounding, and his popularity as an author of SF was second, if only, to the legendary Edward E. "Doc" Smith. Weinbaum was of Jewish heritage, although he seems not to have been overtly religious or even much concerned with religion. His family connections were such that he was related to the Jessels and the Graumans; noted comedian, performer and toast-master Georgie Jessel was a cousin, as was Sid Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theatre fame. Per Weinbaum's widow, the family was large and SGW didn't have much to do with the more famous members of the extended clan(s). Weinbaum attended Riverside High School in Milwaukee, and then the University of Wisconsin. He began his writing career with aspirations of being a poet. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in the Fall of 1920 as a chemistry major. He continued to write poetry, making the acquaintance of Horace Gregory and Maya Zatureska (later husband and wife, both celebrated poets). In 1921, he joined the staff of The Wisconsin Literary Journal, ( TWLJ ) began contributing poems, and switched his major to English. His poems appeared from April, 1921, through June, 1923. Gregory, in his autobiography " The House on Jefferson Street : A Cycle of Memories" (Holt Rinehart 1971), remembers Weinbaum: " . Another boy who was "odd man out" at the university was Stanley Weinbaum, a rosy- cheeked, curly-haired, rather plump freshman, who introduced himself to me in the smoking car of a Madison-bound train out of Milwaukee. His good humor was instantly contagious, and as he sat down next to me and lit a cigarette, I found myself smiling back at him, fascinated by almost everything he said. On a charming easy level, he combined the merits of young Joseph with those of David and his harps. " Stanley had a number of 'ruling passions'; these included playing his guitar as though it were a lute, alliteration in writing verse and chanting it, mathematics, Turkish coffee, the invention of scientific gadgets, and cigarettes. In his speech, he had great purity of diction, and a love of entertaining everyone around him - this last with an artless air that seldom failed to please." Weinbaum did not graduate from the University of Wisconsin. In early 1923, before his last poem was published in TWLJ , Weinbaum agreed to take a friend's place at a final exam; he was caught and expelled from the school. His widow, Margaret Weinbaum Kay, said that he did this as a lark, to help a friend, but mainly because he believed he could pass the exam without having attended the classes. Alain Everts ( Lunaria ) has said that the friend had bet Weinbaum that SGW couldn't pass the final, and that Weinbaum not only passed but he got good marks as well. Gregory notes another issue that may have contributed to (or been indicative of) Weinbaum's troubles with the university: " . His one hatred was military drill, and he exerted all the skills of his inventiveness against participating in it. " The offices of the R.O.T.C. were in a formidable Victorian Gothic red-brick Armory, where basketball games were played, setting-up exercises performed, and on the second floor, files of drill attendance stored. Unless one had a permanent medical excuse (which I possessed) non- attendance at drill meant expulsion from the university. It was the crime of crimes. Stanley had made up his mind to cut drill nine-tenths of his stay at the university. He carefully noted how the drill sergeant marked attendance on a card - he then assembled a kit for picking locks, and thereafter, at midnight, once a month, the locked doors of the Armory would give way to Stanley's craftsmanship; trembling, he would mount dark stairs to the files, and mark himself 'present' for each of his absences at drill. Both his courage and ingenuity were admirable - but the preparations for these excursions, and the excitements, fears, and sense of victory after them, were so tremendous that when he turned up at my room, at two in the morning, he would be in a state of near collapse.