Stanley G. Weinbaum

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Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (born April 4, 1902 in Louisville (Kentucky) , † December 14, 1935 in Milwaukee ( Wisconsin )) was an American science fiction writer . Although he was only active as a writer for a short time, he had a strong influence on science fiction. Especially the short story A Mars Odyssey is still counted among the best of the genre.

Life

Stanley G. Weinbaum was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1902 and grew up in Milwaukee . He studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin . When he had taken an exam instead of a friend because of a bet, which was discovered shortly afterwards, he left college in 1923 without a degree. Soon afterwards he began to write, initially two novels, a romance and an operetta, but only found a publisher for the romance. In the early thirties he joined the science fiction fan group Milwaukee Fictioneers around the author Ralph Milne Farley . Under his influence, Weinbaum turned to pulp magazines . His first story, A Mars Odyssey , which appeared in Wonder Stories in 1934 , was a huge success. Another eleven stories appeared in quick succession until Weinbaum died of throat cancer on December 14, 1935.

Stanley Weinbaum was married to Margaret H. Kay, who published his other works after his death and in 1994 gave his estate to Temple University in Philadelphia.

His short story The Extreme Level of Adaptation was filmed in 1957 by Kurt Neumann under the title She Devil .

In 1973, a crater on Mars was named in his honor , which is right next to a crater named after Robert A. Heinlein . An asteroid was named after Weinbaum in 2010. It bears the name (196540) Weinbaum .

In 2008 he was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for forgotten or no longer adequately honored science fiction authors.

bibliography

Novels
  • The Lady Dances (1933, book 2007)
  • The Black Flame (1939)
    • German: Experiments with Detanol. Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman # 285), 1961. Also called: The Black Flame. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3387, 1974
  • The New Adam (1939)
  • The Dark Other (1950)
    • German: The dark doppelganger. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3424, 1975, ISBN 3-453-30314-8 .
Collections
  • Dawn of Flame - The Weinbaum Memorial Volume (1936)
  • The Black Flame (1948)
  • A Martian Odyssey and Others (1949)
  • The Red Peri (1952)
  • A Martian Odyssey (1962)
    • German: Mars Odyssey. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3168, 1970.
  • A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales (1974)
  • The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum (1974, also as A Martian Odyssey and Other Stories , 1977)
    • German: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6710), 1980, ISBN 3-8118-6710-5 .
  • Lunaria and Other Poems (1988)
  • The Martian Odyssey and Other SF (2008)
  • A Martian Odyssey: Stanley G. Weinbaum's Worlds of If (2008)
  • Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum (2009)
  • Stanley Weinbaum Resurrected (2011)
  • The 27th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2015)

German compilation:

  • The worlds of if: classic science fiction stories. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1988, ISBN 3-360-00182-6 .

The Collected Science Fiction and Fantasy of Stanley G. Weinbaum:

  • 1 Interplanetary Odysseys (2006)
  • 2 Other Earths (2006)
  • 3 Strange Genius (2006)
  • 4 The Black Heart (2006)
Short stories

If only the title and year are given as the source for short stories, the complete information can be found in the corresponding collective edition.

  • A Martian Odyssey (1934)
    • German: Mars Odyssey. Translated by Walter Brumm. In: Mars Odyssey. 1970. Also as: A Mars Odyssey. Translated by Yoma Cap. In: Robert Silverberg , Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): Titan 6. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3558, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30452-7 . Also as: A Mars Odyssey. Translated by Leni Sobez. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • Valley of Dreams (1934)
    • German: The valley of dreams. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • Flight on Titan (1935, also as A Man, a Maid, and Saturn's Temptation , 1935)
    • German: On the Titan. Edition TES (BunTES Abenteuer # 29), 2015.
  • Parasite Planet (1935)
    • English: The Parasite Planet. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • The Lotus Eaters (1935)
    • German: The Lotus Eaters. Translated by Otto Schrag. In: Gotthard Günther (Ed.): Overcoming space and time. Rauch (Rauch's Space Books # 3), 1952. Also known as: The Lotus Eaters. Translated by Walter Brumm. In: Mars Odyssey. 1970. Also called: The Lotus Eaters. Translated by Leni Sobez. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • Pygmalion's Spectacles (1935)
    • English: Pygmalions glasses. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • The Worlds of If (1935)
    • German: The worlds of if. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • The Challenge from Beyond (1935, part 1 (of 5) of a round robin story, other authors were Donald Wandrei , Edward E. Smith , Harl Vincent and Murray Leinster )
  • The Ideal (1935)
    • German: The ideal. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • The Planet of Doubt (1935)
    • English: Planet of Illusions. Edition TES (BunTES Abenteuer # 39), 2017.
  • The Adaptive Ultimate (1935, also as John Jessel)
    • German: The final adaptation. Translated by Walter Brumm. In: Mars Odyssey. 1970. Also as: The ultimate level of adaptation. Translated by Leni Sobez. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980. Also called: The ultimate adaptation. In: The Worlds of If. 1988.
  • The Red Peri (1935)
    • English: The red peri. Edition TES (BunTES Adventure # 35 and # 36), 2016.
  • The Mad Moon (1935)
    • German: The crazy moon. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • Dawn of Flame (1936)
    • English: Der Flamme Morgenröte In: The black flame. 1974.
  • Smothered Seas (1936, with Ralph Milne Farley )
  • The Point of View (1936)
  • Redemption Cairn (1936)
    • German: The saving stone man. In: The best stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum. 1980.
  • Proteus Island (1936)
    • German: Insel des Proteus. In: Mars Odyssey. 1970. Also called: The Isle of Proteus. The New Adventure # 366, 1977. Also called: Proteus Island. In: The Worlds of If. 1988.
  • The Circle of Zero (1936)
    • English: Der Kreis der Null In: Die Welt des Wenn. 1988.
  • Graph (1936)
  • The Brink of Infinity (1936)
    • German: The Edge of Infinity. In: Mars Odyssey. 1970.
  • Shifting Seas (1937)
    • German: seas in change. In: Einstein's swing. Edition Phantasia, Bellheim, 2014.
  • Revolution of 1950 (1938, with Ralph Milne Farley , also as Revolution of 1960 and The Dictator )
  • Tidal Moon (1938, with Helen Weinbaum)
  • The King's Watch (2002)

Adaptations

Movie
  • She Devil (1957), directed by Kurt Neumann , based on: The Adaptive Ultimate

Before that, the story was filmed three times for television:

  • 1949: Episode Kyra Zelas of the TV series Studio One
  • 1952: Episode The Miraculous Serum of the television series Tales of Tomorrow
  • 1955: Episode Beyond Return of the Science Fiction Theater television series
radio play
  • The Lotus Eaters (Bayerischer Rundfunk / Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1978, running time: 48 minutes), directed by Dieter Hasselblatt

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Alpers / Fuchs / Hahn / Jeschke: Lexikon der Science Fiction Literatur, Munich 1988, p. 1032
  2. ↑ She Devil at imdb.com
personal data
SURNAME Weinbaum, Stanley G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman (full name); Jessel, John (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville (Kentucky)
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1935
Place of death Milwaukee ( Wisconsin )