''The Door Through Space'' is a 1961

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novel by American writer

Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel ''The Mists of Avalon'' an ...

. 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

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, bound

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with ''Rendezvous on a Lost World '' by

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. Although it is not part of her

Darkover Darkover is the planet giving its name to the ''Darkover'' series of science fiction-fantasy novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only habitable planet of se ...

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, 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,

, Pub date May 1961, Paperback, Tête-bêche with ''Rendezvous on a Lost World '' by

*1979, UK,

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, Pub date 1979, Paperback

References

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External links

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