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Stanton A. Coblentz

Lifespan
1896 – 1982
Nationality
American
Active
1935 – 1950
Works held
6

Stanton A. Coblentz (1896–1982) was a serious poet, critic and historian who also produced science fiction for over sixty years, usually in a satirical vein, his lost-world and future-society novels use the fantastic to skewer human folly. ‘The Sunken World’ (1928) launched his genre career, and he remained a distinctive, wry presence, as much moralist as adventurer, throughout the pulp era and beyond.

The works

  1. 1950
    Cover of Flight Through Tomorrow Flight Through Tomorrow
  2. 1945
    Cover of When the birds fly south When the birds fly south
  3. 1943
    Cover of The Cosmic Deflector The Cosmic Deflector
  4. 1942
    Cover of The crystal planetoids The crystal planetoids
  5. 1941
    Cover of Headhunters of Nuamerica Headhunters of Nuamerica
  6. 1935
    Cover of In Caverns Below In Caverns Below

Wrote across

1930s1940s1950s

Recurring themes

Space OperaPost-ApocalypticLost WorldAdventureTime TravelDystopiaFirst ContactHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Nelson S. BondStephen MarloweFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithMurray LeinsterRandall GarrettRay CummingsRaymond Z. Gallun

Contemporaries writing in the same era

George O. SmithStephen MarloweNelson S. BondRandall GarrettVariousBryce WaltonRobert SilverbergMurray LeinsterH. Beam PiperRay Cummings

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