Word: martian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulate you on your recognition of science fiction in your review of A Martian Odyssey [TIME, May 30] ? It is seldom that an S-F book receives mention in publications not exclusively devoted to this field, even though interest in science fiction has been increasing at a rapid rate...
...MARTIAN ODYSSEY (289 pp.)-Stanley Weinbaum-Fanfasy...
...could not retreat into the canyon, for behind them were even more terrifying Venusians, the three-eyed, four-legged, two-fingered triops noctivi-vans. What would Ham do? Readers will find the answer in A Martian Odyssey, a posthumous collection of Stanley Weinbaum's "science-fiction" stories...
...integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...
...Washington police riot squad got a new name (The Civil Disturbance Unit) and new equipment - 30-in. batons, tear-gas grenades, carbines, steel helmets and martian-like gas masks...