The Door Through Space

The Door Through Space

Cover of the first edition
Author	Marion Zimmer Bradley
Language	English
Series	Darkover
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1961
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	132
OCLC	1741054

The Door Through Space is a 1961 science fiction novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley. An expansion of Bradley's story "Bird of Prey", which first appeared in the May 1957 issue of the magazine Venture, it is her first novel, and was published by Ace Books, bound tête-bêche with Rendezvous on a Lost World by A. Bertram Chandler.

Although it is not part of her Darkover book series, Darkover is mentioned (as another planet) in passing in the book; numerous Darkover elements appear in the book, such as a red sun, Dry Towns with chained women, catmen and other nonhumans, Terran Empire trade cities, and a Ghost Wind.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns an intelligence agent and a blood feud in the Dry Towns in the north of a world called Wolf. Note that the text of the Ace Double printing differs in the last chapter from the text of the 1979 Ace stand-alone printing.

Publication history

• 1961, US, Ace Books OCLC 1741054, pub date May 1961, paperback, Tête-bêche with Rendezvous on a Lost World by A. Bertram Chandler
• 1979, UK, Arrow Books ISBN 0-09-921170-X, pub date 1979, paperback

References

• Corrick, James A. (1991). Double Your Pleasure: The Ace SF Double. Brooklyn: Gryphon Books. p. 35. ISBN 0-936071-21-4.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 64. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
• The Door Through Space title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

External links

• The Door Through Space at Project Gutenberg
• The Door Through Space public domain audiobook at LibriVox