Stanton A. Coblentz Explained

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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

External links

• • Bibliography at Museum of Learning
    • • https://web.archive.org/web/20110811121857/https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/coblentz.html Brief article about the science fiction written by Coblentz, with many hyperlinked references
• Book: Tuck, Donald H. . Donald H. Tuck

. Donald H. Tuck . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Chicago . . 106 . 1974. 0-911682-20-1.

Notes and References

1. Book: Coblentz, Stanton A. . The Sunken World . 2008-03-01 . Wildside Press LLC . 978-1-4344-6306-7 . en.
2. Book: Coblentz, Stanton A. . The Wonder Stick . 2007-10-01 . Wildside Press LLC . 978-1-4344-9292-0 . en.
3. Book: Coblentz . Stanton Arthur . Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz . Elliot . Jeffrey M. . 1993 . Borgo Press . 978-0-89370-338-7 . en.
4. Book: Coblentz, Stanton A. . Under the Triple Suns . 2014-05-29 . Armchair Fiction & Music . 978-1-61287-216-2 . en.