Beyond Earth's Gates
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Under Eddie Burton's management the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway's glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished - through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality. In that weird twin city to New York, Eddie became a hunted fugitive while his girl friend turned up as an ever-present face and all-pervading voice that awed and mystified the inhabitants. And Eddie learned that between him and return to his natural home stood her new manager, a mysterious figure who ruled by a tyrannical combination of super-scientific miracle and brute force.
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3 stars - Metaphorosis Reviews
A once up and coming actor refuses the attention of a beautiful singer - despite their experiences together on an alternate Earth.
As strength of Kuttner and Moore's story is that they make no attempt to argue that their ‘sideways in time' mechanism is innovative. In fact, there's barely a mechanism at all - just unexplained Earth Gates of an alternate technology. Instead, the story is all about the personal - an actor facing trouble who falls by chance through a portal to a world he though his uncle had invented. The protagonist is an everyman - definitely and defiantly not a hero, just stumbling through as best he can, doing the things we might do, though with a little more knowledge of the inner workings of a television than most. Overall, he's appealing.
Despite Moore's participation, it's definitely a men's story - not in a macho sense, but because the only woman in the story has a very thin part to play. It's a world of men, and a story about men. With that as a given, it works fairly well. The ending does descend into trite sterotypes, but at least does so knowingly and sardonically. Overall, it's an interesting light adventure piece that won't change your life.
