Download or read book Pygmalion's Spectacles written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sci-fi luminary Stanley G. Weinbaum first broke through with the hugely influential story "A Martian Odyssey," one of the first to depict an alien being in a somewhat sympathetic light. Written in 1935, the short tale "Pygmalion's Spectacles" is no less innovative: it centers around the implications of a technology that's surprisingly close to what we now call virtual reality.