Gateway

, #1

Hardcover, 313 pages

English language

Published April 1977 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-312-31780-5
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OCLC Number:
2862581
ISFDB ID:
1884

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Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!

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reviewed Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee, #1)

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 It’s pretty cool. It’s got that vintage feel in that the central conflict is mostly psychological rather than technological. Felt very Asimov that way. It’s even got that late sixties/seventies libertine easy sexuality in it. Some neat world building and commentary on where our culture is heading(pretty much already there.) It feels like it would be a good companion piece to The Forever War

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