false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185423691m/1578130.jpg 218427 13 Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...& 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 & permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him & what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous & even more horrifying than the nightmare trip thru the interstellar void that he drove himself to take. 1668837 book 1977 Gateway (Heechee Saga 1) total:1006|5:320|4:417|3:226|2:39|1:4| 1006 4028 1360 102 4 3 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 14:08:17 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 14:33:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 12 12:52:15 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 19:21:53 -0700 2007 3 2 false true Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Fri Jan 23 05:57:50 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 24 08:43:20 -0700 2009 Gateway to win a bet he'd made while drunk. He and his friends have been talking about sex scenes in SF novels (a notoriously sensitive topic), and Pohl is criticizing them on the gr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 14 13:08:31 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 22:39:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 06:47:39 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 08:18:40 -0800 2008
What separates this from the myriad other science fiction and fantasy offerings out there?

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The structure of the book is interesting, it runs in two simultaneous threads, one a future thread with the lead character talking to a computerised psychologist. The other thread is back in his past, before the things that have messed him up have actually happe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 06:44:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 10:37:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 07:02:30 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:23:48 -0700 2009
The plot is reminiscent of “Stalker...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 20:16:27 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 10:48:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 06:33:30 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 17:12:39 -0800 2009
In a nutshell, Gateway is leftover alie...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 25 09:23:07 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 09:16:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:19:39 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:30:14 -0700 2009
Many glaring anachronisms, but even more noteworthy is Pohl's imagining what suc...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:53:02 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 00:12:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 07:03:39 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 08:47:10 -0800 2009 Gateway is another sf classic I have just now read. It would have blown me away in 1976 and it still does a good job in 2009. It is the first book in the Heechee Saga and it is urging me to read the rest.

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The construction of the book, weaving psychoanalysis, memories and paper excerpts, is its main interest, but the uncanny atmosphere o...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1578130