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reviewed Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee, #1)

Frederik Pohl: Gateway (Hardcover, 1977, St. Martin's Press)

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When …

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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