In case you're curious... Isaac Asimov wrote an introductory essay 'The Second Nova' (1974) for a volume of collected stories by Stanley G Weinbaum. This is wha

In case you're curious... Isaac Asimov wrote an introductory essay 'The Second Nova' (1974) for a volume of collected stories by Stanley G Weinbaum. This is what he said about Weinbaum's first published story, 'A Martian Odyssey' (1934): "Weinbaum was the first, as far as I know, to create extraterrestrials that had their OWN reasons for existing. He did more than that, too; he created whole sense-making ecologies." It's a really great story! Most of Weinbaum's science fiction is just brilliant.