Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935) was the first superstar of Science Fiction. His debut story, “A Martian Odyssey”, appeared in Hugo Gernsback’s Wonder Stories in July 1934. The author became an immediate hit. Stanley G. Weinbaum has been described by Isaac Asimov as “a Campbell writer without Campbell”. Weinbaum’s innovation was to create creatures that actually made sense to their locales rather than just being green humans. Weinbaum was such an immediate star he was invited to join Donald Wandrei, E. E. Smith, Harl Vincent and Murray Leinster to write the jam story “The Challenge from Beyond” (the SF half). His career was struck short when Weinbaum died of cancer at the end of 1935. Some of his unfinished work was completed by his sister, Helen Weinbaum and by friend, Roger Sherman Hoar who wrote under the name Ralph Milne Farley. Stanley G. Weinbaum’s meteoric rise and fall made him a legend in SF, the first writer to prove that Science Fiction was a genre in which writers could become famous.
1934
“A Martian Odyssey” (Wonder Stories, July 1934) (reprinted in Startling Stories, November 1939)
“Valley of Dreams” (Wonder Stories, November 1934) (reprinted in Startling Stories, May 1940)
1935
“Flight on Titan” (Astounding Stories, January 1935)
“Parasite Planet” (Astounding Stories, February 1935)
“The Lotus Eaters” (Astounding Stories, April 1935)
“Pygmalion’s Spectacles” (Wonder Stories, June 1935) (reprinted in Startling Stories, May 1939 and Fantastic Story, Spring 1955)
“The Worlds of If” (Wonder Stories, August 1935) (reprinted in Startling Stories, March 1941)
“The Challenge From Beyond” (Fantasy Magazine, September 1935) (with Donald Wandrei, E. E. Smith, Harl Vincent and Murray Leinster)
“The Ideal” (Wonder Stories, September 1935) (reprinted in Startling Stories, June 1943 and Fantastic Story, Spring 1950)
“The Planet of Doubt” (Astounding Stories, October 1935)
“The Adaptive Ultimate” (Astounding Stories, November 1935) (as John Jessel)
“The Red Peri” (Astounding Stories, November 1935)
“The Mad Moon” (Astounding Stories, December 1935)
1936
“The Point of View” (Wonder Stories, January 1936) (reprinted in Startling Stories, Spring 1944)
“Smothered Seas” (Astounding Stories, January 1936 (with Ralph Milne Farley)
“Yellow Slaves” (True Gang Life, February 1936) (with Ralph Milne Farley)
“Redemption Cairn” (Astounding Stories, March 1936)
“The Circle of Zero” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1936) (reprinted in Startling Stories, September 1947)
“Proteus Island” (Astounding Stories, August 1936)
“Graph” (Fantasy Magazine, September 1936) (reprinted in Satellite Science Fiction, May 1959)
“The Brink of Infinity” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1936) (reprinted in Startling Stories, March 1948)
1937
“Shifting Seas” (Amazing Stories, April 1937)
1938
“Revolution of 1950” (Amazing Stories, October–November 1938) (with Ralph Milne Farley)
“Tidal Moon” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1938 (with Helen Weinbaum)
1939
“The Black Flame” (Startling Stories, January 1939) (reprinted in Fantastic Story, Spring 1952)
“Dawn of Flame” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1939) (reprinted in Fantastic Story, Spring 1952)
The New Adam (Ziff-Davis 1939) (reprinted in Amazing Stories, February–March 1943)
The 1950s
The Dark Other (aka The Mad Brain) (1950)
“Green Glow of Death” (Crack Detective, July 1957)
