The Sunken World is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by author Stanton A. Coblentz

Stanton A. Coblentz

Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author 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," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928...

. It was first published in book form in 1948

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.

Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.

Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., or FPCI, was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing company established in 1946. It was the fourth small press company founded by William L...

 in an edition of 1,000 copies. The novel originally appeared in the Summer 1928 issue of the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

. 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
  Amazing Stories
  Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
  
  , Pub date Summer 1928, Magazine, reprinted Fall 1934
• 1948, USA, Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
  Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
  Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., or FPCI, was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing company established in 1946. It was the fourth small press company founded by William L...
  
  , Pub date 1948, Hardback, first book publication, reprinted 1950
• 1951, UK, Kemsley, Pub date 1951, Paperback
• 2003,USA, Lost Continent Library, Pub date 2003, paperback reprint, ISBN 0-9727472-0-6