The Forbidden Garden

The Forbidden Garden

Infobox Book
name = The Forbidden Garden
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = John Taine
illustrator = A. J. Donnell
cover_artist = A. J. Donnell
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Fantasy Press
release_date = 1947
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 278 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1895266
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"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.

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.

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=235 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=36 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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