"The Cosmic Deflector" by Stanton A. Coblentz is a science fiction story from the early 1940s about a world-changing invention and the problems it causes. Dan Holcomb creates the Cosmic Deflector, which can change gravity. This invention attracts a powerful company, but it also pulls Dan into a dangerous conspiracy. The company's leaders, Hogarth, Wiley, and Malvine, want to use the Deflector to move the Earth out of its orbit so they can control the world. They kidnap Dan, but his wife, Lucile, helps him by sending messages through the radio. Together, they must stop the villains' evil plan. The story builds to a dramatic moment where Dan and Lucile must risk everything to save the Earth, showing the power of love and smart thinking against out-of-control greed.

The Cosmic Deflector
By Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz
When a groundbreaking invention with the potential to control gravity falls into the wrong hands, one man and his wife must risk everything to save Earth from a plot of global domination.
Summary
About the AuthorStanton Arthur Coblentz was an American writer 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.
Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American writer 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.