I&#39;ve always wanted to write. But not until I discovered the old pulp science-fantasy magazines, at the age of sixteen, did this general desire become a specific urge to write science-fantasy adventures.<br />I took a lot of detours on the way. I discovered s-f in its golden age: the age of Kuttner, C.&nbsp;L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Ed Hamilton and Jack Vance. But while I was still collecting rejection slips for my early efforts, the fashion changed. Adventures on faraway worlds and strange dimensions went out of fashion, and the new look in science-fiction&mdash;emphasis on the&nbsp;<i>science</i>&mdash;came in.<br />So my first stories were straight science-fiction, and I&#39;m not trying to put down that kind of story. It has its place. By and large, the kind of science-fiction which makes tomorrow&#39;s headlines as near as this morning&#39;s coffee, has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at ease with a rapidly changing world.<br />But fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up the sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science-fiction are willing to wait for tomorrow to read tomorrow&#39;s headlines. Once again, I think, there is a place, a wish, a need and hunger for the wonder and color of the world way out. The world beyond the stars. The world we&nbsp;<i>won&#39;t</i>&nbsp;live to see. That is why I wrote THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE.<br />&mdash;Marion Zimmer Bradley