“Too many questions breed answers to none.””
Quotes by Stanley G. Weinbaum
“He scarcely know whether to be glad or bitter, for indeed, though she had granted his request to spare his companions, she had granted it only at the cost of the destruction of the cause for which he had sacrificed everything. There were no Harriers any more, but he was still to die for them.””
“He scarcely knew whether to be glad or bitter, for indeed, though she had granted his request to spare his companions, she had granted it only at the cost of the destruction of the cause for which he had sacrificed everything. There were no Harriers any more, but he was still to die for them.””
“I am the Planet eremite, the giant repulsor of the lightThat falls like icy rain at night, from frigid stars and moons a-cold.Ye hath not seen a world like this - the blank and oceanless abyss,The nameless pit and precipice, the mountain very bleak and old.Yet ah - my silence murmureth! Oh, Inner Orbs, ye have not heardThat stillness where there is no death, because no life hath ever stirred!'But here God's very name is dead!' wept Heaven's mighty Myriarch.Then trembling turned away and fled, for Some- thing gibbered in the dark!””
“Sun-power!” grunted the captain. “That’s primitive!” And the engineer added an emphatic “Ja!” of agreement. “Not as primitive as all that,” corrected Jarvis. “The sunlight focused on a queer cylinder in the center of a big concave mirror, and they drew an electric current from it. The juice worked the pumps.” “A t’ermocouple!” ejaculated Putz.””
Stanley G. WeinbaumStanley G. Weinbaum was an influential American science fiction writer whose work helped to shape the genre in the early 20th century. Born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he showed an early interest...