This Halcyon Classics ebook contains nine works by early science fiction writer Stanley Weinbaum (1902-1935), including his highly acclaimed and influential A MARTIAN ODYSSEY. In A MARTIAN ODYSSEY, Weinbaum created the sympathetic alien, one who is able to think and reason in a decidedly non-human way. Previously, aliens tended to be two-dimensional plot devices or villains, not characters in their own right.A MARTIAN ODYSSEY was voted the second best science fiction short story in 1970, coming in behind Isaac Asimov's NIGHTFALL.This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents.This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

This is a classic science fiction novella by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. This is the only of Weinbaum's stories to be set on the planet Pluto, written only five years after the planet's discovery. The tale starts with a spaceship called Aardkin that gets boarded by the notorious pirate ship the Red Peri. One year on Frank Keene and astrophysicist Solomon Nestor crash land on Pluto and find themselves captives of the Red Peri herself, the nineteen year-old daughter of the man who built the Red Peri. During their ordeal the secret of the reason behind her forays into piracy are revealed. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.