Background
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. He was the son of Nathan A. Weinbaum and Stella (Grauman) Weinbaum. His family was Jewish.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum attended Riverside High School (now Riverside University High School).
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In 1920 Stanley Grauman Weinbaum enrolled at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Weinbaum crater located at 65.5°S latitude and 245.4°W longitude on Mars. It measures 82 kilometers in diameter.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In 1920 Stanley Grauman Weinbaum enrolled at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum attended Riverside High School (now Riverside University High School).
Weinbaum crater located at 65.5°S latitude and 245.4°W longitude on Mars. It measures 82 kilometers in diameter.
(After a worldwide plague breaks civilization, Joaquin Smi...)
After a worldwide plague breaks civilization, Joaquin Smith and his sister build an empire up the Mississippi Valley. Who would be brave or foolish enough to stand in their way? Who but a young backwoodsman named Hull Tarvish?
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1936
(The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded ...)
The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded world of men and women who look like him but who cannot comprehend his powers or his unique mentality. Nature had placed Edmund Hall a rung higher on the ladder of evolution than the men around him. How could he live in a world populated by creatures as far below him as the ape is below us?
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1939
(The novel starts several hundred years after most of mank...)
The novel starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. Its story concerns a brother and sister who have become immortal. In "Dawn of the Flame" the sister, Margaret of Urbs, known as "Black Margot", is a Joan-of-Arc-type, leading the battle against the mutated of mankind. By the time of "The Black Flame", she is jaded and finds that being an immortal can be boring.
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1948
(This book contains short stories: "A Martian Odyssey", "V...)
This book contains short stories: "A Martian Odyssey", "Valley of Dreams", "The Adaptive Ultimate","The Mad Moon", "The Worlds of If", "The Ideal", "The Point of View". "Pygmalion's Spectacles", "Parasite Planet", "The Lotus Eaters", "The Planet of Doubt", "The Circle of Zero".
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1949
(Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick i...)
Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick is a young man with a secret. When his dark side interferes with their burgeoning love, things turn grim, and psychologist Carl Horker has to intervene.
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1950
(This book contains eight stories: The Red Peri (1935); Fl...)
This book contains eight stories: The Red Peri (1935); Flight on Titan (1935); Smothered Seas (1936) (with Ralph Milne Farley); Redemption Cairn (1936); Proteus Island (1936); The Brink of Infinity (1936); Revolution of 1950 (1938) (with Ralph Milne Farley); Shifting Seas (1937).
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1952
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. He was the son of Nathan A. Weinbaum and Stella (Grauman) Weinbaum. His family was Jewish.
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum attended Riverside High School (now Riverside University High School) in Milwaukee. In 1920 he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to study chemical engineering, but eventually decided to change his major to English Literature, after which he began publishing some of his poetry in "The Wisconsin Literary Journal" and befriended Horace Gregory, who would become a distinguished poet himself. He never received his degree as he was caught pretending to be another student and sitting their exam for a bet.
After university, Stanley Grauman Weinbaum took a number of unfulfilling jobs, but continued to write in his spare time. "The Lady Dances" was his first novel, and in 1933, was purchased by the King Features Syndicate, who then serialised it in a number of national newspapers, under the pseudonym Marge Stanley. However, Weinbaum’s attempts at publishing some of his other romantic stories fell flat, prompting him to return to science fiction.
Weinbaum submitted several science fiction stories to the market magazines, meeting with rejection. Then, in January, 1934, one of the stories landed on the desk of Hugo Gernsback, then editor and publisher of Wonder Stories. Gernsback was a pioneer science fiction and fantasy publisher and the grand old man of science fiction magazine publishing. The story that Gernsback found before him was "A Martian Odyssey." In August 1934, after the publication of "Odyssey", Weinbaum was contacted by Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger of the Solar Sales Service, who wanted to act as literary agents for the new author. Schwartz and Weisinger had made a name for themselves in early science fiction publishing and fandom as a result of their work with Science Fiction Digest/Fantasy Magazine.
Over the next year and a half, Weinbaum produced roughly two dozen short stories, ranging from hard-boiled detective pieces to science fiction. Around 1935, he also worked on several other projects, including a novel "The New Adam", which he had been working on for some years. During a routine check-up with his physician, it was discovered that he was suffering from throat cancer. He died on December 14, 1935, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of complications from this decease.
(This book contains eight stories: The Red Peri (1935); Fl...)
1952(The novel starts several hundred years after most of mank...)
1948(This book contains short stories: "A Martian Odyssey", "V...)
1949(The New Adam finds himself not in Eden, but in a crowded ...)
1939(After a worldwide plague breaks civilization, Joaquin Smi...)
1936(Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick i...)
1950Stanley Grauman Weinbaum wasn't much concerned with religion.
In his speech, Stanley Grauman Weinbaum had great purity of diction.
Quotes from others about the person
"In his short career, Stanley G. Weinbaum revolutionized science fiction. We are still exploring the themes he gave us." – Poul Anderson.
"Stanley G. Weinbaum's name deserves to rank with those of Wells and Heinlein - and no more than a handful of others - as among the great shapers of modern science fiction." – Frederik Pohl.
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was married Margaret Hawtof Kay.
