A Martian Odyssey
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A Martian Odyssey set the career of Stanley Weinbaum off like a bomb, since he wrote a story like none had done before: it was about an alien who is sentient and intelligent rather than a mindless barbarian. He also added the twist that despite the creature's intelligence, it didn't have human logic or reason. The story features a four-man crew who have crash-landed on Mars, and one of them, Dick Jarvis, who sets out on his own. He meets Tweel, a sympathetic creature who shows him the ways of the planet. A strange pyramid building creature, a tentacled "dream beast," and broken record cart people. Check out for yourself why A Martian Odyssey came in 2nd in the best science fiction stories of all time, right behind Asimov's Nightfall.
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1 primary bookA Martian Odyssey is a 1-book series first released in 1934 with contributions by Stanley G. Weinbaum.
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Hard to call it a book as it is very short. But it is listed on Goodreads and Gutenberg publishes it as a book.
Once the Mariner probes traveled to Venus, stories about the inhabited jungle all went away.
And the inhabited Martian desert stories also became obsolete.
This is one of those Martian stories.
It is from 1949 and kind of fun given that is is very short.
So get it and spend a little while exploring the Mars that never was with Jarvis and Tweel.
