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Fantasy Commentator, v. 1, issue 5, Winter 1944-1945
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"Ganpat" (M.L.A. Gompertz) has written well over a dozen novels, all of which are thematically similar, and four of which I have had the pleasure of reading. These are Harilek (1923), wherein is found, on a desert plateau, a race which has lived thus isolated for ages, and which bears evidence of Greek deri-vation; The Voice of Dashin (1927), another lost race tale, even more absorbing than Harilek; Snow Rubies (1925), where a hideous race of decadent people, so degenerate that they approximate cavemen, is discovered in ancient lost ruby mines amid the high peaks of Tibet---savages, indeed, throwing occasional sacri-ficial victims to a hungry monster in a pit; and The Mirror of Dreams (1928), in which, while seeking a landscape seen in a weird, magic mirror, adventurers come upon a hidden region in the highest snows, with ancient
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"Ganpat" (M.L.A. Gompertz) has written well over a dozen novels, all of which are thematically similar, and four of which I have had the pleasure of reading. These are Harilek (1923), wherein is found, on a desert plateau, a race which has lived thus isolated for ages, and which bears evidence of Greek deri-vation; The Voice of Dashin (1927), another lost race tale, even more absorbing than Harilek; Snow Rubies (1925), where a hideous race of decadent people, so degenerate that they approximate cavemen, is discovered in ancient lost ruby mines amid the high peaks of Tibet---savages, indeed, throwing occasional sacri-ficial victims to a hungry monster in a pit; and The Mirror of Dreams (1928), in which, while seeking a landscape seen in a weird, magic mirror, adventurers come upon a hidden region in the highest snows, with ancient
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