TAINE, JOHN (ERIC TEMPLE BELL)
The Cosmic Geoids and One Other Tale
Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc, 1950. 2nd Printing. Paperback. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with the exception of a inked cross out to the price and a number 4 added in place. "During the early 1920s, Bell wrote several long poems. He also wrote several science fiction novels, which independently invented some of the earliest devices and ideas of science fiction. Only the novel The Purple Sapphire was published at the time, using the pseudonym John Taine; this was before Hugo Gernsback and the genre publication of science fiction. His novels were published later, both in book form and serialised in magazines. Basil Davenport, writing in The New York Times, described Taine as "one of the first real scientists to write science-fiction [who] did much to bring it out of the interplanetary cops-and-robbers stage." But he concluded that "[Taine] is sadly lacking as a novelist, in style and especially in characterization." " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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