The Purple Sapphire
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This book is from a scan of Famous Fantasic Mysteries August 1948, OCRed with ABBYY Fine Reader, formatted, TOC & cover added; thoroughly spell-checked.
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John Taine
Pseudonym for all his fiction of Scottish-born mathematician and writer Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960), permanently in US from 1902; under his own name he wrote at least 250 papers and several studies in mathematical history and theory. Taine's first novel was a Lost World tale: The Purple Sapphire (1924), set in Tibet where an ancient race possesses the secret of atomic power.
Basil Davenport, writing in The New York Times described Taine as "one of the first real scientists to write science-fiction did much to bring it out of the interplanetary cops-and-robbers stage."
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