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Fantasy Digest, v. 1, issue 2, February 1939
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HOMAGE TO STANLEY WEINBAUM by Harry Warner. Jr. Never in the history of science-fiction has a figure been more universally mourned among the fans than the late Stanley G. Weinbaum. In the short space of two years he endeared himself to tens of thousands the world over. The most remarkable thing about him was that his critics were almost nonexistant. H.P Lovecraft had just as many fans, in all probability, but for almost every follower he had a bitter critic. Later, perhaps, I plan to write a series of long articles discussing each story of Weinbaum's in full. This might be considered a sort of preamble to them; be that as it may. I merely wish to point here a few indications of Weinbaum's unparralelled popularity. In his life, Stanley Weinbaum wrote somehwere around 300,000 words of stf, as far as it is known today. More than half of this was in his gigantic novel, but what other author, living or dead, has had every story of his published with the exception of one novel? Yet this is the ease with Weinbaum; perhaps the unpublished novel is his greatest work, but has not seen print due to his nature. At the same time, this may yet be published in the pages of AMAZING STORIES--- under the title of "The New Adao[?]" Weinbaum was, in a way, a "one-plot" man. He freely admitted that he used wild-west plots, put them on another planet, and called it stf. Praell
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HOMAGE TO STANLEY WEINBAUM by Harry Warner. Jr. Never in the history of science-fiction has a figure been more universally mourned among the fans than the late Stanley G. Weinbaum. In the short space of two years he endeared himself to tens of thousands the world over. The most remarkable thing about him was that his critics were almost nonexistant. H.P Lovecraft had just as many fans, in all probability, but for almost every follower he had a bitter critic. Later, perhaps, I plan to write a series of long articles discussing each story of Weinbaum's in full. This might be considered a sort of preamble to them; be that as it may. I merely wish to point here a few indications of Weinbaum's unparralelled popularity. In his life, Stanley Weinbaum wrote somehwere around 300,000 words of stf, as far as it is known today. More than half of this was in his gigantic novel, but what other author, living or dead, has had every story of his published with the exception of one novel? Yet this is the ease with Weinbaum; perhaps the unpublished novel is his greatest work, but has not seen print due to his nature. At the same time, this may yet be published in the pages of AMAZING STORIES--- under the title of "The New Adao[?]" Weinbaum was, in a way, a "one-plot" man. He freely admitted that he used wild-west plots, put them on another planet, and called it stf. Praell
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