The Red Peri (collection)

The Red Peri

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Stanley G. Weinbaum
Cover artist	John T. Brooks
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Fantasy Press
Publication date	1952
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	252 pp
OCLC	2338364

The Red Peri is a collection of science fiction short stories by author Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was first published in 1952 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,732 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Amazing Stories, Astounding and Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Contents

• "Smothered Seas" (with Ralph Milne Farley)
• "Revolution of 1950" (with Ralph Milne Farley)
• "The Red Peri"
• "Proteus Island"
• "The Brink of Infinity"
• "Shifting Seas"
• "Flight on Titan"
• "Redemption Cairn"

Reception

Boucher and McComas, although noting that The Red Peri was "a collection of Weinbaum's lesser work," still praised it as an interesting selection of work from "one of the most original and stimulating forerunners of contemporary science fiction."^[1] P. Schuyler Miller, similarly noting that Weinbaum's best work had already been collected in A Martian Odyssey and Others, found nevertheless that "Any of these stories would stand up today."^[2]

References

1. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, April 1953, p.99
2. "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, May 1953, p.151

• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-03-14.
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 238.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 447. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.