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Lane, Jeremy

(1893-1963) US author of two Lost Race tales: Yellow Men Sleep (3 May-31 May 1919 All-Story Weekly as "The Fragrant Web"; 1919) features the sophisticated empire of Tau Kuan, whose rulers are descended from the Great Khans, and who have remained hidden in the Gobi Desert sustained by the Drug Koresh as the once-fertile region desiccated, but whose secretive trade in the drug now arouses Western fears of a Yellow Peril threat to civilization; and The Left Hand of God (1929). [JC]

Jeremy Lane

born Mishawaka, Indiana: 29 April 1893

died Warren, Michigan: 18 September 1963

works

• Yellow Men Sleep (New York: The Century Co, 1919) [illus/hb/C W Gage]
• The Left Hand of God (New York: Ives Washburn, 1929) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:51 am on 12 May 2026.
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