The Worlds of If - Stanley G. Weinbaum

[@thetooginator153]

I really like it whenever the narrator says “van Manderpootz”. I just can’t imagine the name being said any other way. It cracks me up EVERY time! Serious! I think Weinbaum was a genius and the poor guy died way too young.

[@sebastianmelmoth9100]

VANN! MANDER!! POOTZ!!!!!!! "Bah ... a pack of jackals eating the crumbs of ideas that drop from my feast of thoughts ..."

[@n.b.2164]

Very good short story. Entertaining. This was the first of the van Manderpootz series.

[@ufosrus]

A very imaginative and amusing spin on the "what if" that we ask ourselves in our lifetime (i.e.what if I had chosen the other career, or moved abroad, or marrried Tom instead of Paul, etc.etc.) And with two funny characters: the rich, spoiled chronic procrastinator and the egomaniac scientist.

[@pauliefte]

What a great listen. Bravo

[@SwampDonkey64]

The great Vanmanderpuets ! Lol I have heard that name in a lot of this authors stories.

[@virgiljjacas1229]

I like this post Deco environment .

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

"that crazy market of 08-09" hehe he he.. [puts on tin hat]

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

i did not notice it, does he get the dates right as well?

[@DrNilsRasmussen]

This is pretty much an EXACT DESCRIPTION of The Mandela Effect...Written 75 or 80 years prior at that!

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

The original What-If machine!! Manderpootz even sounds like farnsworth a bit.

[@samgamgee7384]

"You'd like to see it [the time machine] ? Is there anything you'd like to find out? Any choice you'd alter?" I'd like to know what would have happened if I'd sold out my stocks in 2009 instead of '10."

[@16MXD]

Great story and reading, but what's with his pronunciation of Joanna?

[@br9809]

Geas

[@wlg2677]

Sorry Mate.