Viaje interminable

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

This was later re-written and published as Endless Universe.

Genres: Science Fiction

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.

Bradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.

Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms.

Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by herself, but in her later years collaborated with other authors for publication; her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death.

Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture.

For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.

Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including male authors in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death in September of 1999.

Probably her most famous single novel is The Mists of Avalon. A retelling of the Camelot legend from the point of view of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, it grew into a series of books; like the Darkover series, the later novels are written with or by other authors and have continued to appear after Bradley's death.

Her reputation has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations of child sexual abuse by her daughter Moira Greyland, and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Olethros · Rating 3 out of 5]

-Ser explorador espacial es toda una engorrosa aventura.-

Género. Ciencia-Ficción.

Lo que nos cuenta. Haciendo uso del Transmisor, la gente (y cualquier material) puede viajar entre distancias inmensas a través del universo en poco tiempo, pero para ello alguien debe localizar primero nuevos planetas que colonizar e instalar en ellos el Transmisor. Esa es la labor de los Exploradores, que viajan con cierta rapidez en sus naves pero bajo los efectos del tiempo relativo y que pagan un alto precio personal, cultural, físico, social y psicológico por su aportación al despliegue de la humanidad en el espacio.

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[Ruth Santana Valencia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Conocí a la autora por la serie de libros Las nieblas de Avalon pensé esto es éxito seguro pero me queda claro que la ciencia ficción no es mi hit.

El libro se me hizo varios capítulos de Star Trek o Viaje a las Estrellas el programa de los 60s, dándole voz a las mujeres y tocando temas innovadores.

Si amas la ciencia ficción es para ti.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic Sci-Fi! Many novels solve the intergalactic travel problem though a series of "ancient alien gates", without much detail on how they got there. In Endless Voyage, Bradley tells the story of Explorers who travel out from colonized planets in spaceships, linking new habitable planets to the grid by building transmission gates. As years pass on the Ship, centuries pass in the core worlds due to time dilation. There is a true sense of exploration, perhaps similar to what Europeans must have felt crossing the Atlantic, to face new challenges and treacherous frontiers. That combined with a well developed shipboard culture made this a great read.

[Xabi1990 · Rating 4 out of 5]

8/10. Media de los 18 libros leídos de la autora : 8/10

En su día estaba colgadito de su saga de Darkover (Fantasía). Hace no mucho re-leí parte de uno de estos libros y me resultó simplón, pero como estoy manteniendo la nota que les puse en su día, pues queda la autora con una media fantástica de "8".
Aunque creo que lo que tiene más fama suyo es Darkover, en esta de tripulaciones que viven sin poderse anclar con nadie en planetas debido a las dilataciones temporales de los viajes relativistas me pareció bien tratada y desarrollada

[John L. Axtell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not Complete

This is an abridged version that misses two planets completely. I will only give five stars to a complete version.

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good starfarers novel. Decent premise and a couple of new ideas here.

[Mark APF · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ha sido un gran viaje. El justo y necesario para la historia. Da un placer ver lo natural con lo que se desarrolla la historia en diferentes planos desde el narrado, la mente del personaje y la cultura de ese universo. Deja un gran sabor el final, algo predecible, con sus complejas situaciones anímicas. Además se valora la “ciencia” que no pasa desapercibida.

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a shorter version of another of Marion's works called Endless Universe. Focuses on a "family" of explorers. Explorers have the job of opening up new planets for human habitation. Once they are sure it's safe, they put up a 'transmitter' and the people start pouring in. The explorers move on to search for a new planet. They live their lives on their ships when they aren't securing planets, and look like they are all of one race due to the effects of radiation, but actually come from all over the galaxy.

[Allen McDonnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read and re-read this book every few years since it was published in 1975. It gives a whole different take on the far future of space exploration and is an easy read while also offering things to contemplate. What does it mean to become an adult and shoulder responsibility for others? Is loyalty to family and home more important than self discovery and love?

[SciFiOne · Rating 3 out of 5]

1980 grade B-
2008 grade C

aka Endless Universe after rewrite.