The Lost Comet

by Stanton A. Coblentz

As the resources of the Earth grew inadequate for its population, Stephen Rathbone organized an intrepid band to search out a new, unexplored region of the world which might be developed as a home for future generations. On their dirigible, The Comet, the band heads for the North Pole, never dreaming of the dangers that lie in wait among the ice floes and barren wastes of the frozen north!

Hardcover

First published October 10, 2008

About the author

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. 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.