The Forbidden Garden

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The Forbidden Garden

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author John Taine
Illustrator A. J. Donnell
Cover artist A. J. Donnell
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Fantasy Press
Publication date 1947
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 278 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 1895266

The Forbidden Garden is a science fiction novel by author John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in 1947 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 3,029 copies.

[edit] Plot introduction

The novel concerns the search for soil from a remote part of Asia for the cultivation of weird flowers that can destroy humanity.

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 235. 
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 36. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.