2008 books
28) Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Door Through Space, 1961
Bradley's second novel, out of print for forty-five years but recently reissued by Cosmos Books. Not strictly a Darkover novel, more a kind of proto-Darkover experiment with a few themes and settings Bradley later explored in more detail. The plot is rather thin, about two rival Terran agents on the planet Wolf, and how they are both manipulated from afar by the alien known as the Toymaker. Whereas the Darkover books lean towards fantasy this is more specifically science fiction (though somewhat thin on the science); parts of it made me wince as it was clearly written for guys thirty years younger than me, all with a thinly disguised sado-masochist subtext.