Landell Bartlett

Born in Colorado in 1897, Landell Bartlett was an American writer and editor whose name is most closely linked to The Vanguard of Venus, a 1928 science-fiction chapbook distributed with Amazing Stories. Reference works on speculative fiction describe him as a minor but notable early genre figure, and surviving bibliographies suggest his published fiction was limited.

Bartlett spent much of his life in Colorado Springs and appears to have been active in local literary and historical circles. Later accounts connected with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum note that his personal journals help illuminate decades of local history, which adds another side to his legacy beyond pulp fiction.

He died in Colorado Springs in July 1972. Though he is not widely known today, Bartlett remains an intriguing example of an early regional writer whose small body of science fiction and firsthand records still interest readers and researchers.