âThe Manderpootz Seriesâ includes the three stories of Stanley G. Weinbaumâs early science fiction trilogy. He is best known for his short story âA Martian Odysseyâ which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. In a series of comedies featuring the eccentric scientist Professor Manderpootz â including the Alternate-History story âThe Worlds of Ifâ, âThe Idealâ and âThe Point of Viewâ â he flippantly devised absurdly miraculous Machines. The humorous stories follow the doings of Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in âNewer Physics,â Professor Haskel van Manderpootz, a supremely immodest genius who rates Einstein as his intellectual equal.
âThe Manderpootz Seriesâ includes the three stories of Stanley G. Weinbaumâs early science fiction trilogy. He is best known for his short story âA Martian Odysseyâ which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. In a series of comedies featuring the eccentric scientist Professor Manderpootz â including the Alternate-History story âThe Worlds of Ifâ, âThe Idealâ and âThe Point of Viewâ â he flippantly devised absurdly miraculous Machines. The humorous stories follow the doings of Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in âNewer Physics,â Professor Haskel van Manderpootz, a supremely immodest genius who rates Einstein as his intellectual equal.