Darkover: The Door Into Space (Paperback)

from okwari

Reminded me a lot of C.L Moore's Northwest of Earth. Apparently the author was influenced by Northwest. I found the ending to be ... how do I put it? Flat. Interesting on the whole, but not one I'd rush to re-read.

from DeusXMachina

I liked this book, even as it shows its age of more than half a century and the plot itself isn't the most innovative. Wolf, the planet where the protagonist goes on his hunt for his niece and her father, has an abundance of characteristics that readers will remember for MZB's Darkover series. Da...

from wmorton38

A so-so science fiction adventure. Really a take-off on the much used crime plot: burned out detective/policeman, etc. is about to leave town/planet when he is called back into service. He must go undercover to track down his ex-friend now-nemesis.

from lewispike

This is a hard book to review - and in some ways that's my fault. This is one of MZB's very early books (it was first published 4 years before I was born), but I'm reading a reprint from after she died. The story is, of itself, perfectly competently told and engaging. A Terran intelligence agent ...

from MarthaJeanne

This early MZB is more interesting for its insights into the origins of parts of Darkover than for the story itself. Even the name Darkover is in this book, and the beginnings of the Dry Towns. Other phrases and species are also there, but they are not what they would become in the Darkover novel...