A Weinbaum Odyssey

The premise here is that science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum, best known for his classic short story "A Martian Odyssey" does not die of lung cancer in 1935 and goes on to write well into the 1970s. What kind of an impact does Weinbaum have if he is able to take his place among the likes of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, etc?
 
What kind of an impact does Weinbaum have if he is able to take his place among the likes of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, etc?

YES !

he was groundbreaking in science fiction genre
even today "A Martian Odyssey" is a must read
or his "The Adaptive Ultimate" (under the pen name "John Jessel".)
were medical experiment goes disasterously wrong, and patient become a danger to society.

Isaac Asimov quote about Weinbaum's Odyssey
"His easy style and his realistic description of extraterrestrial scenes and life-forms
were better than anything yet seen, and the science fiction reading public went mad over him".
The story "had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story,
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."

his "Planetary series" OTL only 9 short story would had dozens Short story and Novels !
anticipated Leigh Brackett Solar System serie by years.
i ask wat for Novel he had written in Golden age of Sci-Fi ?
IMHO he anticipated allot of today SF classic years befor, the great SF-author had even the Idea...
 
Ah! I remember Martian Odyssey. That is by far one of the best stories to come out of the pulp age-waaayy ahead of it's time. I honestly had no idea it was written so early when I first read it-I thought it was a contemporary of Heinlien's later stuff.

Edit: the more I research this guy, the more I see what a fantastic world builder he is. If he had lived to collect all these stories in an omnibus, or at least finish them, he'd probably become one of the Grand Masters of scifi.
 
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