Project Gutenberg 2020-11-17 Public domain in the USA. 79 Tustin, Byron Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly The Purple Pariah Produced from Planet Stories March 1954 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Purple Pariah" by Byron Tustin is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around two space explorers, Archie Simms and Ed Bailey, who encounter a mysterious purple sphere on an uninhabited planet after their rocket crashes. The book explores themes of loneliness, kindness, and communication between different forms of life, through the interactions of the characters with the enigmatic entity that possesses a deep sadness. In the story, Archie and Ed initially treat the purple sphere with skepticism, but as they engage with it, they discover its unique abilities and tragic backstory. The sphere, referred to as Melancholy by Archie, has been alone for millions of years after being separated from its own people. As the explorers navigate their precarious situation on the planet, they realize that the purple entity has been helping them, repairing their ship and guiding them back to safety. Eventually, the narrative culminates in a poignant reflection on empathy and understanding, as Archie tries to advocate for the sphere when Ed mistakenly treats it as a threat. The journey underscores the importance of companionship and the emotional toll of isolation, conveying a message about the potential for kindness across disparate beings. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 87.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 59478 2025-06-25T08:29:24.515587 text/html 35975 2024-10-18T08:15:33 text/html 371907 2025-06-25T08:29:26.308025 application/epub+zip 370740 2025-06-25T08:29:24.920550 application/epub+zip 86430 2025-06-25T08:29:24.689596 application/epub+zip 409422 2025-06-25T08:29:27.506084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402536 2025-06-25T08:29:26.109087 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 118497 2022-09-28T18:39:34.101016 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 53233 2023-09-27T08:46:45.392396 text/plain 33398 2024-10-18T08:15:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16461 2025-06-25T08:29:27.632011 application/rdf+xml 28798 2025-06-25T08:29:24.789547 image/jpeg 5072 2025-06-25T08:29:24.741517 image/jpeg 404850 2025-06-25T08:29:24.530499 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia