The 1934 Story That Invented Every Alien in Sci-Fi

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[00:00:00]In 1934, a 32-year-old American chemist named Stanley Weinbaum wrote a single 30-page short story and invented every alien in modern science fiction. His Martian communicates only through symbols carved in the sand, the direct ancestor of Arrival's heptapods and Project Hail Mary's Rocky. Six months after publishing, Weinbaum died of cancer. Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein built their careers on his one story, and many recent authors still do.