A Martian Odyssey - Stanley G. Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey (novella) by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Dick Jarvis crash-lands into one of the Thyle regions of Mars. Rather than sit and wait for rescue, Jarvis decides to walk back north to the Ares, but he could never have foreseen the wonders and dangers that lay ahead.
"A Martian Odyssey" immediately established Weinbaum as a leading figure in science fiction. Isaac Asimov states that Weinbaum's "easy style and realistic description of extraterrestrial scenes and life-forms were better than anything yet seen, and the science fiction reading public went mad over him." The story "had the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story, Weinbaum was instantly recognised as the world's best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him."
Tweel itself was one of the first characters (arguably the first) who satisfied John W. Campbell's famous challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man."
Published July 1934 ~ Wonder Stories

[@maryelizabeth6797]

You know you are old when you can remember these covers. Enjoy these old stories so much. This modern obsession of taking three book to tell a short story bores me stiff.

[@richmcgee434]

I remember them too, but only from a big book that collected a bunch of Golden Age pulp scifi covers that came out sometime in the 1970s. That Wonder Stories one was one of them. Great stuff - I wound up dismembering the book and framing each page to make a wall full of scifi artwork that followed me from college dorm rooms to my first couple of apartments. Inclined to agree with you about modern editing and writing standards. A little decompression in storytelling is fine, but stretching a twenty page plot to six hundred is going too far.

[@ufosrus]

Imaginative, entertaining story and excellent narration, as usual, by Greg Marguerit.

[@Spiderhead1000]

Read this over and over when I was a kid, loved it, so good to hear it. Thank-you for posting.

[@fredg.sanford634]

What a great story! Thanks!

[@TheMyrmo]

I needed this today... thank you!

[@kitten48484]

Thank you for the video! Helped me a lot with my reading assignment!

[@eisenhertz]

Nice one! thanks.

[@sierraseven3680]

Weinbaum died less than two years after the publication of this story, which is still considered a milestone in SF. He was 33.

[@jacobloving6765]

sierraseven SF?

[@sierraseven3680]

@@jacobloving6765 Science fiction or more recently speculative fiction. Please don't say "sci-fi".

[@jacobloving6765]

sierraseven oh I definitely say, “ I fall asleep a to sci-fi.”

[@sierraseven3680]

@@jacobloving6765 I'm not surprised.

[@jacobloving6765]

sierraseven what’s wrong with sci-fi?

[@eisenhertz]

Nice one!

[@edlorson8849]

Great stories, thanks

[@gingersnap5245]

Marvelous!

[@aishalotter9995]

Funny a.f. Great!!! Peace out

[@MsTeaRex]

Where's the rest of the story???

[@floraposteschild4184]

+MsTeaRex That's the end.

[@MsTeaRex]

Oh ok. lol It's been a while and I can't remember why I wrote that....many audiobooks later....:)

[@floraposteschild4184]

It's pretty abrupt, and leaves you wanting more. Poor Stanley Weinbaum died of cancer at an early age not long after, so there is a layer of poignancy.

[@Zackasaurusify]

+Flora Posteschild Actually... there IS more!!! Weinbaum wrote a sequel called THE VALLEY OF DREAMS!!!

[@MsTeaRex]

Thanks for the heads up!

[@lsdmadman]

yay the first...thanky so much for jamming this for us zanies...bless your heart if you wd

[@20mikemike]

Yup you definitely did a disservice to tweel calling him a man should've called him friend

[@HughEMC]

"shannigins" does not mean "Jeni se qua" 😂 but hey that's my only complaint. These stories are a great look into social ideas of the time they where written. Most of these stories play out like a space version of Cowboys & Indians or the great White hunter/explorer/pioneer but only in space. I'm a bit surprised to so often hear the theme of encountering aliens on a full blown different planet that are more primitive than the clever brave Earth man 😂 I see why Star Trek was so revolutionary

[@ocianaigh1]

Disappointing the way the recording ends (as if there should be more).

[@themousethatroared3371]

The sequel, Valley of Dreams is available on this channel.

[@cleverbstard944]

@@themousethatroared3371 WOO HOO thanks matey

[@RightNowMan]

Twenty

[@johnjordan7379]

Speeded up a little to much for me

[@bryine.willis8683]

e6:31pm...

[@BobTheAwesomeBob]

35:56

[@DarthVaderX31]

Hated the ending but so perfectly written otherwise.

[@susanc4622]

Shows the Western idea of interfering with alien cultures without understanding the consequences. It’s only at the punchline that we find he had stolen the artefact that the rubbish collectors needed.