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Stanley Weinbaum was an influential science fiction writer who died at an early age. His short story “A Martian Odyssey,” included in this collection, was praised by science fiction luminaries like Isaac Asimov, who said the story “had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story, Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him.”
This collection includes all of Weinbaum’s short stories that are believed to be in the public domain.
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Stanley Weinbaum’s The Dark Other was first written sometime in the 1920’s under the name The Mad Brain. The manuscript went unpublished until 1950, where it was posthumously released with edits by Forrest J. Ackerman.
Patricia Lane is a spirited young woman, in the midst of a passionate relationship with Nicholas Devine, a writer with a fascination with horror. When he starts to show bizarre personality shifts, she turns to her neighbor, a talented psychologist, to discover the source of these outbursts.