Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902 in Louisville, Kentucky. In his life unfortunately short, Stanley G. Weinbaum was able to write only a handful of stories but with his extraordinary imagination and the ability to build a consistent way really alien worlds greatly influenced the field of science fiction. At the time, in fact many stories really naive and full of stereotypes were published while the ones written by Weinbaum were of far higher quality.