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Title | : | Gateway (Heechee Saga #1) |
Author | : | Frederik Pohl |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
Published | : | October 12th 2004 by Del Rey (first published 1977) |
Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
Frederik Pohl
Paperback | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 4.07 | 38044 Users | 1503 Reviews
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Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror.When prospector Robinette 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, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become... 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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Original Title: | Gateway |
ISBN: | 0345475836 (ISBN13: 9780345475831) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Heechee Saga #1 |
Characters: | Robinette Broadhead |
Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1978), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1977), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1978), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1978), Ditmar Award Nominee for Best International Long Fiction (1978) Prix Tour-Apollo Award (1979) |
Rating Regarding Books Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)
Ratings: 4.07 From 38044 Users | 1503 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)
This is a well structured sci fi novel, and I can see why it is considered an influential classic, but it has one major problem that I can't get around: the protagonist is a whining, self-absorbed shithead. Since the main story is told in flashback, and he is still a whining, self-absorbed shithead in the frame story, we spend the whole book knowing that he will not grow or change at any point through the adventure he is relating to us, and for all we know his whining self-absorbedCan you like a book when you kind of hate the main character? Especially when that character is the first-person narrator? The answer, for me, for this book anyway, is apparently "not all that much."Gateway is one of those sci-fi classics that I am supposed to have absorbed if I want to consider myself well read in the genre. It's one of the rare Hugo/Nebula double winners (not to mention the Locus and Campbell awards, which pretty much covers all of them)! It is by one of the stalwarts of geek
"Gateway" by Frederik Pohl has long been considered a classic of Science Fiction and deservedly so. It's earned its status honestly and is one of the best books I have ever read.What separates this from the myriad other science fiction and fantasy offerings out there?It's the characters. The Plot Gateway is an asteroid in our Solar System that was hollowed out and made into a base of operations by the mysterious ancient alien race known as the "Heechee". They abandoned it long before mankind

I wanted to like this book but ended up annoyed and slightly disgusted. I was hopeful at first because the sci-fi elements were interesting and seems to have potential (the Heechee ships, Gateway, the food mines etc). I'd also recently finished his enjoyable capitalist-dystopian novels The Space Merchants and sequel The Merchants' War. Sadly there is nothing to like about Pohl's protagonist in this novel, in fact Bob is a despicable human being on all accounts (and not in an intentionally
Frederik Pohl is still alive? Wow. And won a Hugo as recently as last year, for his blog. That I will have to check out. This is a guy who has been around science fiction for a long time, as a writer and as an editor. And Gateway was my first introduction to his work. Let me just go add him to the list of authors I want to read more of.... (That's not rhetorical - it's on a Sticky on my desktop.) I will want to be reading more of his work.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to
This is really a 4 1/2 stars book, but Ive rounded sightly down because what promised to be psychological complexity at the core of the story wound up being just a tad too pat in the end. So much of this tightly-constructed, deeply-imagined novel is excellent: a case study in economically written, character-driven, atmospheric, darkly funny, and humane science fiction. Our human history is riddled with the corpses of prospectors, explorers, and thrill seekers who are driven by ego or desperation
Gateway is what I would consider to be a true science fiction novel. Everything about this book comes across as serious commentary that can be tossed around in the readers head for possible relevance in the present world, as well as contemplations of Fredrik Pohls world 40-plus years ago.The tone of the book is reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft (Mountains of Madness) or Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). Its narrated in the first person by the main character, Robinette Broadhead. As such, everything that
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