{"product_id":"9781486415519","title":"The Door Through Space - The Original Classic Edition","description":"Aliens, empire of Man, and just one story of a man. This book is well-written, with a good sci-fi plot, characters that are a bit under-drawn but only because we are entering their lives in the midst of a crisis. They have a past, and will have a future, and this short book doesnt try to answer everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts a rollicking good ride with a hero thats a human hero, a bit risque for 1960, and chock-full of imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou wont find the stories of four or five (or forty or fifty) people weaving through one immensely long never-ending publishing buffet. Instead, its told through the eyes of only one man, and told well. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is exactly what I expected - classic pulp science fiction. It is well-written and has a vivid and interesting world. Is it great literature? No. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt lay white and windswept, a barricade of emptiness; to one side the spaceport and the white skyscraper of the Terran Headquarters, and at the other side, the clutter of low buildings, the street-shrine, the little spaceport cafe smelling of coffee and jaco, and the dark opening mouths of streets that rambled down into the Kharsa-the old town, the native quarter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e...Even after six years behind a desk, my neat business clothes-suitable for an Earthman with a desk job-didnt fit quite right, and I still rose unconsciously on the balls of my feet, approximating the lean stooping walk of a Dry-towner from the Coronis plains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e...It had been six years; six years of slow death behind a desk, since the day when Rakhal Sensar had left me a marked man; death-warrant written on my scarred face anywhere outside the narrow confines of the Terran law on Wolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e...It had been Rakhal who first led me through the byways of the Kharsa, teaching me the jargon of a dozen tribes, the chirping call of the Ya-men, the way of the catmen of the rain-forests, the argot of thieves markets, the walk and step of the Dry-towners from Shainsa and Daillon and Ardcarran-the parched cities of dusty, salt stone which spread out in the bottoms of Wolfs vanished oceans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e...It took me only an instant to get into the street after her, but as I stepped across the door there was a little stirring in the air, like the rising of heat waves across the salt flats at noon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emereo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172397990128,"sku":"9781486415519","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781486415519_p0.jpg?v=1763634629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781486415519","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}