The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum

The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum

First edition cover
Author Stanley G. Weinbaum
Cover artist Dean Ellis
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction stories
Publisher Ballantine Books
Publication date
 1974
Pages xii + 306
OCLC 1013405

The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum is a collection of science fiction stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, published in 1974 as an original paperback by Ballantine Books. The volume included an introduction by Isaac Asimov and an afterword by Robert Bloch. Ballantine reissued the collection twice in the later 1970s; Garland Publishing published a library hardcover edition in 1983, and Sphere Books released a UK market edition in 1977, under the title A Martian Odyssey and Other Stories.[1] The original edition placed third in the 1975 Locus Poll for best genre collection.[2]

Contents

"The Adaptive Ultimate" originally appeared under the byline "John Jessel".[3]

Reception

Alexei and Cory Panshin were of the opinion that although the collection was important because it gave modern readers "the chance to see Weinbaum in context with this major collection of his short work," they felt that "the special power to command that Weinbaum once had no longer exists. What is left is, at best, no more than occasionally and tepidly amusing." [4]

References

  1. ↑ ISFDB bibliography
  2. ↑ Locus Index to SF Awards
  3. ↑ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  4. ↑ "Books", F&SF, December 1974, pp.67-68
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