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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 1, November-December 1937
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stanley G. Weinbaum by Robert W. Lowndes[[?]] The late Stanley G. Weinbaum will, we think , have had as much influence in the shaping of future science fiction, as well as today's science fiction, as the great poet Charles Baudelaire had upon the entire panorama of continental and much of American poetry. Just as Baudelaire brought new blood, perspective, and consciousness, to a new movement in literature, decadence, which had already been set in motion by Edgar Allan Poe in this country, Weinbaum brought to perfection a different , refreshed type of fiction which had been set in motion by a few, scattered writers like Dr. Edward elmer Smith. And again, like Baudaire, Weinbaum was infinitely greater, broader in scope than his predecessors. What are some of the qualities that set Weinbaum apart from his fellow science fiction writers? One was humanism. His people were alive, vivid, real- the problems he set them against were understandable, human problems. One Editor said that Weinbaum's stories
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stanley G. Weinbaum by Robert W. Lowndes[[?]] The late Stanley G. Weinbaum will, we think , have had as much influence in the shaping of future science fiction, as well as today's science fiction, as the great poet Charles Baudelaire had upon the entire panorama of continental and much of American poetry. Just as Baudelaire brought new blood, perspective, and consciousness, to a new movement in literature, decadence, which had already been set in motion by Edgar Allan Poe in this country, Weinbaum brought to perfection a different , refreshed type of fiction which had been set in motion by a few, scattered writers like Dr. Edward elmer Smith. And again, like Baudaire, Weinbaum was infinitely greater, broader in scope than his predecessors. What are some of the qualities that set Weinbaum apart from his fellow science fiction writers? One was humanism. His people were alive, vivid, real- the problems he set them against were understandable, human problems. One Editor said that Weinbaum's stories
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