Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1902 and later associated with Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best remembered for "A Martian Odyssey," the story that brought him wide attention in 1934 and quickly made him an important new voice in magazine science fiction.

Readers and critics have often singled out his gift for imagining nonhuman minds and convincing extraterrestrial settings. That talent helped set his work apart from much of the science fiction of his day, and it is a big reason his stories still get mentioned in discussions of the genre's early classics.

His time as a science fiction author was very short: he died in 1935 at just 33. Even so, his reputation endured, and he is widely remembered as one of the most promising and influential science fiction writers of his era.