Stanton A. Coblentz

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Stanton Arthur Coblentz (born August 24, 1896 in San Francisco ; died September 6, 1982 in Monterey , California ) was an American writer. He wrote poetry , science fiction , historical works and worked as a literary critic and journalist .

Life

Coblentz was the son of insurance agent Mayer Coblentz and Mattie, née Arndt. He studied law at the University of California at Berkeley , but then switched to English literature a year before graduating. In 1919 he completed his MA with a thesis on The poetic revival in America . After completing his studies, he was a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner , and from 1920 to 1938 he wrote reviews for various New York newspapers. From 1933 he published the quarterly poetry magazine Wings , which appeared in his publishing house Wings Press , in which a large part of his poetry volumes was published. Wings was discontinued in 1960 . From 1959 he wrote book reviews for the Los Angeles Times .

From the 1920s he had published individual poems in newspapers and magazines. In 1928 his story The Sunken World appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly , followed by the first novel, The Wonder Stick , in 1929 . Until the 1950s he wrote numerous novels and short stories of varying quality. His importance is seen today in the fact that he was a typical representative of the first generation of Pulp Magazine science fiction, who, like few other authors, was able to describe foreign races and create exotic scenes, even if the characters he created were often not convincing could.

As a lyric poet, he took a traditionalist position and, in his essays critical of literature, used vehement polemics against his modern colleagues.

In 1922 he married Flora Bachrach. In his second marriage he was married to Emily Caswell Tiexiera.

Awards

  • 1953: Lyrical Foundation for Traditional Poetry Award
  • 1953: Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal for Poetry
  • 1981: First Fandom Hall of Fame Award

bibliography

Outlander
  • 1 The Moon People (1964)
  • 2 The Crimson Capsule (1967; also: The Animal People , 1970)
  • 3 The Island People (1971)
Novels
  • The Sunken World (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1928 )
  • After 12,000 Years (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1929 )
  • The Wonder Stick (1929)
  • Into Plutonian Depths (in: Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931 ; as Stanton H. Coblentz)
  • The Blue Barbarians (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1931 )
  • In Caverns Below (3 parts in: Wonder Stories, March 1935  ff .; also: Hidden World , 1957; also: The Hidden World , 2006)
  • The Pageant of Man (1936)
  • The Lord of Tranerica (in: Dynamic Science Stories, February 1939 )
  • Youth Madness (1944)
  • When the Birds Fly South (1945)
  • The Planet of Youth (1952)
  • Under the Triple Suns (1955)
  • Next Door to the Sun (1960)
  • The Runaway World (1961)
  • The Last of the Great Race (1964)
  • The Lost Comet (1964)
  • The Lizard Lords (1964)
  • The Day the World Stopped (1968)
  • Crisis on the Planet Krong (1980, only published in Italian)
Collections
  • The Thinker and Other Poems (poems, 1923)
  • Shadows on a Wall (1930)
  • Time's Travelers (poems, 1952)
Short stories

1929:

  • The Gas-Weed (in: Amazing Stories, May 1929 )
  • The Making of Misty Isle (in: Science Wonder Stories, June 1929 )
  • The Radio Telescope (in: Amazing Stories, June 1929 )
  • The Wand of Creation (in: Amazing Stories, August 1929 )

1930:

  • Reclaimers of the Ice (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1930 )
  • A Circe of Science (in: Amazing Stories, May 1930 )
  • Missionaries from the Sky (in: Amazing Stories, November 1930 ; also: Missionaries of Mars , 1940)

1932:

  • The Planet of Youth (in: Wonder Stories, October 1932 )

1933:

  • The Man from Tomorrow (in: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring-Summer 1933 )
  • The Men Without Shadows (in: Amazing Stories, October 1933 )

1934:

  • The Confession of Dr. DeKalb (in: Astounding Stories, January 1934 )
  • Manna from Mars (in: Astounding Stories, March 1934 )
  • The Green Plague (in: Astounding Stories, April 1934 )
  • The Radio Mind-Ray (in: Astounding Stories, July 1934 )
  • In the Footsteps of the Wasp (in: Amazing Stories, August 1934 )
  • The Truth About the Psycho-Tector (in: Astounding Stories, October 1934 )
  • Beyond the Universe (in: Amazing Stories, December 1934 )
  • Riches for Pluto (in: Astounding Stories, December 1934 )

1935:

  • Triple-Geared (in: Astounding Stories, April 1935 )
  • An Episode in Space (in: Astounding Stories, May 1935 )
  • Older Than Methuselah (in: Amazing Stories, May 1935 )
  • The Golden Planetoid (in: Amazing Stories, August 1935 )

1936:

  • The Glowworm Flower (in: Astounding Stories, June 1936 )

1937:

  • Denitro (in: Amazing Stories, February 1937 )
  • The Reign of the Long Tusks (in: Astounding Stories, February 1937 )
  • Gravity, Unaffected (in: Astounding Stories, September 1937 )

1938:

  • Exiles from the Universe (in: Amazing Stories, February 1938 )
  • Through the Time-Radio (in: Marvel Science Stories, August 1938 )
  • Rout of the Fire Imps (in: Marvel Science Stories, November 1938 )

1939:

  • Death in the Tubeway (in: Amazing Stories, January 1939 )
  • The Weather Adjudicator (in: Marvel Science Stories, February 1939 )
  • The Man from Xenern (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1939 )
  • The Purple Conspiracy (in: Fantastic Adventures, November 1939 )
  • Planet of the Knob-Heads (in: Science Fiction, December 1939 )

1940:

  • Fire Gas (in: Famous Fantastic Mysteries, April 1940 )
  • Sunward (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1940 )

1941:

  • Headhunters of Nuamerica (in: Comet, March 1941 )
  • Over the Space-Waves (in: Startling Stories, March 1941 )
  • Enchantress of Lemuria (in: Amazing Stories, September 1941 )

1942:

  • The Treasure of Red-Ash Desert (in: Weird Tales, March 1942 )
  • The Crystal Planetoids (in: Amazing Stories, May 1942 )
  • The Phantom Armada (in: Fantastic Adventures, May 1942 )
  • The Sun Doom (in: Fantastic Adventures, June 1942 )
  • The Scarlet Rollers (in: Fantastic Adventures, September 1942 )
  • The Stygian Terror (in: Fantastic Adventures, November 1942 )
  • The Victory of the Vita-Ray (in: Weird Tales, November 1942 )

1943:

  • The Cosmic Deflector (in: Amazing Stories, January 1943 )
  • Ard of the Sunset People (in: Amazing Stories, February 1943 )
  • The Glass Labyrinth (in: Weird Tales, May 1943 )
  • The Sidereal Time-Bomb (1943, in: Startling Stories, Winter 1943–1944 )

1944:

  • The Shoes of Judge Nichols (in: Weird Tales, March 1944 )
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Hang (in: Weird Tales, July 1944 )
  • The Odyssey of Battling Bert (in: Amazing Stories, December 1944 )

1945:

  • The Nemesis of the Astropede (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fall 1945 )

1946:

  • Youth Madness (1946, in: Benson Herbert (Ed.): Youth Madness )
  • For Love of a Phantom (in: Weird Tales, July 1946 )
  • Titan of the Jungle (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1946 )

1947:

  • The Dog That Came Back (in: Weird Tales, July 1947 ; also: The Dog Who Came Back , 1964)
  • Flight Through Tomorrow (1947, in: Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 1 )
  • Time Trap (1947, in: Fantasy No. 3 )

1948:

  • The Grotto of Cheer (in: Weird Tales, May 1948 )
  • The Daughter of Urzun (in: Weird Tales, September 1948 ; also: Daughter of Urzun , 1964)

1949:

  • The Will of Raminchantra (in: Weird Tales, March 1949 )
  • The Ubiquitous Professor Karr (in: Weird Tales, July 1949 )
    • German: The ubiquitous Professor Karr. Translated by Ernst Heyda and Hella Unruh. In: Wolfhart Luther (Ed.): Luther's Grusel + Horror Cabinet 12.Luther Grusel + Horror # 12, 1972.

1950:

  • The Mysterious Miss Maltra (in: Weird Tales, January 1950 )
  • The Universe Ranger (1950, in: Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 6 )
  • The Round Tower (in: Weird Tales, May 1950 )
  • The Doom of Cassandany (1950, in: The Nekromantikon, Winter 1950–1951 )

1951:

  • The Way of the Moth (in: Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1951 )

1953:

  • The Revolt of the Scarlet Lunes (in: Spaceway, December 1953 )
  • The Scarlet Lunes (1953, in: William L. Crawford and Margaret Crawford (as Garret Ford) (Eds.): Science and Sorcery )

1954:

  • The Midgets of Monoton (in: Spaceway, February 1954 )

1958:

  • Microcosm (in: Fantastic Universe, April 1958 )

1964:

  • At Pixie's Pool (in: Tales of Terror from the Beyond, Summer 1964 )
  • Immanuel Predicts (in: Tales of Terror from the Beyond, Summer 1964 )
  • One Minute Past Noon (in: Tales of Terror from the Beyond, Summer 1964 )

1985:

  • The Girl with the Indigo Eyes (in: Weird Tales, Winter 1985 )
Anthologies
  • Modern American Lyrics: An Anthology (1924)
  • Modern Lyrics, American and British, Two Volumes in One (1924)
  • Modern British Lyrics: An Anthology (1925)
  • Unseen Wings: The Living Poetry of Man's Immortality (1949)
Other publications
  • The Decline of Man (1925)
  • The Literary Revolution (1927)
  • The Lone Adventurer (1927)
  • Marching Men. The Story of War (1927)
  • The Rise of the Anti-Poets: Selected Editorials from Wings, a Quarterly of Verse (1955)
  • From Arrow to A-Bomb (1956)
  • Demons, Witchdoctors and Modern Man (1965)
  • Ten Crises in Civilization (1965)
  • Light Beyond (1989)
  • Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz (Autobiography, 1993; with Jeffrey M. Elliot)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Stanton Arthur Coblentz  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published as a private print in 1917 .
personal data
SURNAME Coblentz, Stanton A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coblentz, Stanton Arthur (full name); Coblentz, Stanton (alternative spelling); Coblentz, Stanton H. (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1982
Place of death Monterey , California