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00 Authors Note - The Door Through Space - Marion Zimmer Bradley · Science Fiction Books

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  Speaker 1: Author's note, I've always wanted to write, but not until
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  Speaker 1: I discovered the old pulp science fantasy magazines at the
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  Speaker 1: age of sixteen did this general desire become a specific
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  Speaker 1: urge to write science fantasy adventures. I took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of detours on the way I discovered s F in
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  Speaker 1: its golden age, the age of Kutner, C. L. Moore,
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  Speaker 1: Leigh Brackett at Hamilton, and Jack Vance. But while I
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  Speaker 1: was still collecting rejection slips for my early efforts, the
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  Speaker 1: fashion changed. Adventures on faraway worlds and strange dimensions went
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  Speaker 1: out of fashion, and the new look in science fiction,
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  Speaker 1: emphasis on the science, came in. So my first stories
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  Speaker 1: were straight science fiction, and I'm not trying to put
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  Speaker 1: down that kind of story. It has its place. By
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  Speaker 1: and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's
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  Speaker 1: headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular
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  Speaker 1: awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in.
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  Speaker 1: It has helped generations of young people feel at ease
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  Speaker 1: with a rapidly changing world. But Fashion's change, old Love's return,
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  Speaker 1: and now that Sputnik's clutter up the sky with new
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  Speaker 1: and unfamiliar moons, The readers of science fiction are willing
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  Speaker 1: to wait for tomorrow to read tomorrow's headlines once again.
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  Speaker 1: I think there is a place, a wish, a need,
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  Speaker 1: and hunger for the wonder and color of the world
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  Speaker 1: way out, the world beyond the stars, the world we
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  Speaker 1: won't live to see. That is why I wrote The
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  Speaker 1: Door through Space. Marian Zimmer Bradley end of author's note,