Stanton A. Coblentz
Appearance
Stanton Arthur Coblentz (August 24, 1896 – September 6, 1982) was an American writer and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was The Sunken World,[1] a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, The Wonder Stick.[2] But poetry and history were his greatest strengths. Coblentz tended to write satirically. He also wrote books of literary criticism and nonfiction concerning historical subjects. Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz was published the year after his death.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Decline of Man (1925) [non fiction]
- The Lone Adventurer (1927)
- The Literary Revolution (1927) [non fiction]
- The Sunken World (1928)
- The Wonder Stick (1929)[2]
- Shadows on a Wall (1930)
- The Answer of the Ages (1931)
- In Caverns Below (1935, also known as The Hidden World)
- The Pageant of Man (1936)
- Songs by the Wayside (1938)
- Green Vistas (1943)
- Youth Madness (1944)
- When the Birds Fly South (1945)
- An Editor Looks At Poetry (1947)
- The Sunken World (1949)[1]
- After 12,000 Years (1950)
- Into Plutonian Depths (1950)
- The Planet of Youth (1952)
- Times travelers (1952)
- The Rise of the Anti-Poets (1955)
- Under the Triple Suns (1955)[4]
- Hidden World (1955)
- The Blue Barbarians (1958)
- My Life in Poetry (1959)
- Next Door to the Sun (1960)
- The Runaway World (1961)
- The Moon People (1964)
- The Last of the Great Race (1964)
- The Lizard Lords (1964)
- The Lost Comet (1964)
- Ten Crises in Civilization (1965)
- Lord of Tranerica (1966)
- The Crimson Capsule (1967, also known as The Animal People)
- The Poetry Circus (1967)
- The Day the World Stopped (1968)
- The Militant Dissenters (1970)
- The Island People (1971)
- Strange Universes: New Selected Poems (1977)
- Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz (1983)
- Light Beyond (1989)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Coblentz, Stanton A. (2008-03-01). The Sunken World. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-4344-6306-7.
- ^ a b Coblentz, Stanton A. (2007-10-01). The Wonder Stick. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-4344-9292-0.
- ^ Coblentz, Stanton Arthur; Elliot, Jeffrey M. (1993). Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz. Borgo Press. ISBN 978-0-89370-338-7.
- ^ Coblentz, Stanton A. (2014-05-29). Under the Triple Suns. Armchair Fiction & Music. ISBN 978-1-61287-216-2.
External links
[edit]- Stanton A. Coblentz at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Bibliography at Museum of Learning
- Works by Stanton A. Coblentz at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Stanton A. Coblentz at the Internet Archive
- Works by Stanton A. Coblentz at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- [1] Brief article about the science fiction written by Coblentz, with many hyperlinked references
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 106. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.