{"product_id":"2940014094481","title":"The Door Through Space","description":"... _across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty\u003cbr\u003ewith the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by\u003cbr\u003ecompact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens\u003cbr\u003ethe Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned\u003cbr\u003eagainst their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear,\u003cbr\u003ebut from a sense of dedication._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in\u003cbr\u003ethe minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by\u003cbr\u003einterest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret\u003cbr\u003eService._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRENDEZVOUS ON A LOST WORLD\u003cbr\u003eCopyright (c), 1961, by Ace Books, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted in U.S.A.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e=Author's Note:--=\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've always wanted to write. But not until I discovered the old pulp\u003cbr\u003escience-fantasy magazines, at the age of sixteen, did this general\u003cbr\u003edesire become a specific urge to write science-fantasy adventures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI took a lot of detours on the way. I discovered s-f in its golden age:\u003cbr\u003ethe age of Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Ed Hamilton and Jack\u003cbr\u003eVance. But while I was still collecting rejection slips for my early\u003cbr\u003eefforts, the fashion changed. Adventures on faraway worlds and strange\u003cbr\u003edimensions went out of fashion, and the new look in\u003cbr\u003escience-fiction--emphasis on the _science_--came in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo my first stories were straight science-fiction, and I'm not trying to\u003cbr\u003eput down that kind of story. It has its place. By and large, the kind of\u003cbr\u003escience-fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this\u003cbr\u003emorning's coffee, has enlarged popular awareness of the modern,\u003cbr\u003emiraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of\u003cbr\u003eyoung people feel at ease with a rapidly changing world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up\u003cbr\u003ethe sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science-fiction\u003cbr\u003eare willing to wait for tomorrow to read tomorrow's headlines. Once\u003cbr\u003eagain, I think, there is a place, a wish, a need and hunger for the\u003cbr\u003ewonder and color of the world way out. The world beyond the stars. The\u003cbr\u003eworld we _won't_ live to see. That is why I wrote THE DOOR THROUGH\u003cbr\u003eSPACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the spaceport gates, the men of the Kharsa were hunting down a\u003cbr\u003ethief. I heard the shrill cries, the pad-padding of feet in strides just\u003cbr\u003ea little too long and loping to be human, raising echoes all down the\u003cbr\u003edark and dusty streets leading up to the main square.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the square itself lay empty in the crimson noon of Wolf. Overhead\u003cbr\u003ethe dim red ember of Phi Coronis, Wolf's old and dying sun, gave out a\u003cbr\u003epale and heatless light. The pair of Spaceforce guards at the gates,\u003cbr\u003ewearing the black leathers of the Terran Empire, shockers holstered at\u003cbr\u003etheir belts, were drowsing under the arched gateway where the\u003cbr\u003estar-and-rocket emblem proclaimed the domain of Terra. One of them, a\u003cbr\u003esnub-nosed youngster only a few weeks out from Earth, cocked an\u003cbr\u003einquisitive ear at the cries and scuffling feet, then jerked his head at\u003cbr\u003eme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hey, Cargill, you can talk their lingo. What's going on out there?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI stepped out past the gateway to listen. There was still no one to be\u003cbr\u003eseen in the square. It lay white and windswept, a barricade of\u003cbr\u003eemptiness; to one side the spaceport and the white skyscraper of the\u003cbr\u003eTerran Headquarters, and at the other side, the clutter of low\u003cbr\u003ebuildings, the street-shrine, the little spaceport cafe smelling of\u003cbr\u003ecoffee and _jaco_, and the dark opening mouths of streets that rambled\u003cbr\u003edown into the Kharsa--the old town, the native quarter. But I was alone\u003cbr\u003ein the square with the shrill cries--closer now, raising echoes from the\u003cbr\u003eenclosing walls--and the loping of many feet down one of the dirty\u003cbr\u003estreets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen I saw him running, dodging, a hail of stones flying round his head;\u003cbr\u003esomeone or something small and cloaked and agile. Behind him the\u003cbr\u003estill-faceless mob howled and threw stones. I could not yet understand\u003cbr\u003ethe cries; but they were out for blood, and I knew it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI said briefly, \"Trouble coming,\" just before the mob spilled out into\u003cbr\u003ethe square. The fleeing dwarf stared about wildly for an instant, his\u003cbr\u003ehead jerking from side to side so rapidly that it was impossible to get\u003cbr\u003eeven a fleeting impression of his face--human or nonhuman, familiar or\u003cbr\u003ebizarre. Then, like a pellet loosed from its sling, he made straight for\u003cbr\u003ethe gateway and safety.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073870184688,"sku":"2940014094481","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014094481_p0.jpg?v=1763609798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014094481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}