Stanton A. Coblentz
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American
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 author and poet. He received a Master's Degree
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 in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction
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 was "The Sunken World
The Sunken World
The Sunken World is a science fiction novel by author Stanton A. Coblentz. It was first published in book form in 1948 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,000 copies. The novel originally appeared in the Summer 1928 issue of the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly...

," a satire
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 about Atlantis
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, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, The Wonder Stick. 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.

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