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The Red Peri
"The Red Peri" is a science fiction novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum that first appeared in the November 1935 issue of ''Astounding Stories''. Sam Moskowitz has noted that Weinbaum planned to write a series of sequels to "The Red Peri" but died before he could do so.〔Introduction by Sam Moskowitz to ''A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales'', Hyperion, 1974, ISBN 0-88355-152-7〕 "The Red Peri" is the only Weinbaum story set on Pluto. The novel also inspired Arthur C. Clarke, who stated that David Bowman's helmetless spacewalk in ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' was inspired by Frank Keene's escape from the pirate base in "The Red Peri".〔Arthur C. Clarke, ''Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography'', Bantam, 1990, ISBN 0-553-34822-1.〕
==Weinbaum's Pluto==
"The Red Peri" was written only five years after the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh, when the only things known about it were its orbit and the fact that its apparent magnitude was 14.90, too dim to be a gas giant. Given its known distance from the sun, this meant that the higher Pluto's albedo was assumed to be, the smaller it would have to be. Weinbaum assumed that Pluto's surface was as dark as coal, and that its diameter was greater than Earth's, with a correspondingly greater gravity. Weinbaum also assumed that Pluto was airless and had a twenty-hour period of rotation and a surface temperature of 10 kelvins. Despite its harsh conditions, Weinbaum's Pluto includes a number of life-forms, all of them crystalline creatures called crystal crawlers that consume various elements, including aluminum, iron, and carbon.
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