The Sunken World

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name = The Sunken World
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Stanton A. Coblentz
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cover_artist = Roy Hunt
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
release_date = 1948
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 184 pp
isbn = NA
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"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". It was Coblentz's first published science fiction novel.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns Anton Harkness, the commander of an American submarine in World War II which is caught in a whirlpool which drags it to the bottom of the sea where it collides with a glass dome. The crew are rescued by the Atlanteans who live beneath the dome. Harkness falls in love with an Atlantean girl with whom he escapes after the Atlantean dome is destroyed.

Publication history

*1928, USA, "Amazing Stories Quarterly", Pub date Summer 1928, Magazine, reprinted Fall 1934
*1948, USA, Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., Pub date 1948, Hardback, first book publication, reprinted 1950
*1951, UK, Kemsley, Pub date 1951, Paperback

References

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