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Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months. ==Life and career== Weinbaum was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Stella (née Grauman) and Nathan A. Weinbaum.〔() (books ) 〕 His family was Jewish. He attended school in Milwaukee. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, first as a chemical engineering major but later switching to English as his major, but contrary to common belief he did not graduate. On a bet, Weinbaum took an exam for a friend, and was later discovered; he left the university in 1923. He is best known for the groundbreaking science fiction short story, "A Martian Odyssey", which presented a sympathetic but decidedly non-human alien, Tweel. Even more remarkably, this was his first science fiction story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, ''The Lady Dances'', to King Features Syndicate, which serialized the story in its newspapers in early 1934). Isaac Asimov has described "A Martian Odyssey" as "a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. Indeed, Tweel may be the first creature in science fiction to fulfil Campbell's dictum, 'write me a creature who thinks ''as well as'' a man, or ''better than'' a man, but not ''like'' a man'." Asimov went on to describe it as one of only three stories that changed the way all subsequent ones in the science fiction genre were written.〔Asimov, Isaac. ''Asimov on Science Fiction''. New York: Doubleday, 1981. pp. 221-2.〕 It is the oldest short story (and one of the top vote-getters) selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America for inclusion in ''The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964''. Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either ''Astounding'' or ''Wonder Stories''. However, several of Weinbaum's pieces first appeared in the early fanzine ''Fantasy Magazine'' (successor to ''Science Fiction Digest'') in the 1930s, including an "Auto-Biographical Sketch" in the June 1935 issue. Despite common belief, Weinbaum was not one of the contributors to the multi-authored ''Cosmos'' serial in ''Science Fiction Digest/Fantasy Magazine.'' He did contribute to the multi-author story "The Challenge From Beyond", published in the September 1935 ''Fantasy Magazine''. At the time of his death, Weinbaum was writing a novel, ''Three Who Danced''. In this novel, the Prince of Wales is unexpectedly present at a dance in an obscure American community, where he dances with three of the local girls, choosing each for a different reason. Each girl's life is changed (happily or tragically) as a result of the unexpected attention she receives. In 1993, his widow, Margaret Hawtof Kay (b. 1906 in Waco, Texas), donated his papers to the Temple University Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Included were several unpublished manuscripts, among them ''Three Who Danced'', as well as other unpublished stories (mostly romance stories, but there were also a few other non-fiction and fiction writings, none of them science fiction). A film version of his short story "The Adaptive Ultimate" was released in 1957 under the title ''She Devil'', starring Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, and Albert Dekker. The story was also dramatized on television; a ''Studio One'' titled "Kyra Zelas" (the name of the title character) aired on September 12, 1949. A radio dramatization of "The Adaptive Ultimate" was performed on the anthology show ''Escape'' in the 1950s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanley G. Weinbaum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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