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A Martian Odyssey and Others

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Cover artist
  
A. J. Donnell

Publication date
  
1949

Pages
  
289 pp

Author
  
Stanley G. Weinbaum

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1949

Publisher
  
Fantasy Press

OCLC
  
2320042

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Genres
  
Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
The Red Peri, Redemption Cairn, Valley of Dreams, The Lotus Eaters, The Best of Stanley G Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey and Others is a collection of science fiction short stories by author Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 3,158 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Wonder Stories, Astounding and Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Contents

Contents

  • "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"
  • Reception

    Time magazine, using the collection as a springboard for a broader discussion of the sf genre, concluded that "The reader who reads science fiction dispassionately is likely to be struck by how closely the human imagination is tied to reality, even when it deliberately sets out to violate it. Stanley Weinbaum's loonies and slinkers have been seen before. The shapes may be different, but his dream-beasts come startlingly close to what the human race has been running across, for a good many years, in its childish nightmares."

    References

    A Martian Odyssey and Others Wikipedia