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Sci-fi luminary Stanley G. Weinbaum first broke through with the hugely influential story A Martian Odyssey, one of the first to depict an alien being in a somewhat sympathetic light. Written in 1935, the short tale Pygmalion's Spectacles is no less innovative: it centers around the implications of a technology that's surprisingly close to what we now call virtual reality.
11) Smothered Seas
12) Valley of Dreams
14) Parasite Planet
16) The Red Peri
17) The Lotus Eaters
19) Proteus Island
20) The Ideal
After making science-fiction history with his beloved and broadly influential tale A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum turned his creative powers to a series of stories starring a mismatched pair of protagonists: legend-in-his-own-mind Professor Haskel van Manderpootz and dashing aristocrat Dixon Wells. In the engaging short story The Ideal, the two develop a device that allows the user to catch a fleeting glimpse of his or her
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