After 12,000 Years is a science fiction magazine serial and novel by American writer Stanton A. Coblentz.

Lloyd Arthur Eshbach regarded this as one of the stronger titles published by FPCI.

[3] The novel concerns Henry Merwin, who after taking part in an experiment finds himself 12,000 years in the future.

Despite sounding "much older" than its 1928 copyright "the ideas in the book are valid—more so today, I believe, than when the book was written", he said, comparing the future society's methods to that of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Adolf Hitler's Big lie.

[4] R. D. Mullen noted in 1975 that although the novel "anticipates Brave New World in some respects, and Nineteen Eighty-Four in others," its stylistic weakness makes it unsuccessful social satire, and that the novel therefore "fails to provoke either laughter or horror—or at least would fail to do so for any sophisticated reader.