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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)

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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 hisMoreGateway 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!
THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One:GATEWAY
Book Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE


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j

rated it it was ok
over 3 years ago

Shelves: 2012 , audiobooks , sci-fi-fantasy , sf-masterworks
Can 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 absorb... Read full review
Evgeny

rated it liked it
about 2 years ago

Shelves: scifi
Before I began writing the review I searched for images of Gateway. This was the first one in the results:
hamster
I really have no clue about the relevance. When I think about a gateway I think about something like this:
gateway arch
or something like the following which resonates better with... Read full review
Megan Baxter

rated it really liked it
about 3 years ago

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... Read full review
Manny

rated it liked it
over 7 years ago

Shelves: science-fiction , too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
I have a theory, based on nothing more than a dirty mind and my own propensity for making silly bets, that Pohl wrote 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 i... Read full review
Apatt

rated it really liked it
over 3 years ago

I remember reading this when I was 15 or so, I did not like it. I have no recollection of why I did not like it. Now it is years later and I am at the age of (view spoiler), having just re-read the book I can tell you why I did not like it then and why I do like... Read full review
Mark

rated it it was amazing
over 6 years ago
Recommends it for: Anyone

Shelves: sciencefiction
"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... Read full review
Ania

rated it did not like it
about 5 years ago
Recommends it for: Nobody
Recommended to Ania by: goodreads, because I read "Ender's game", "Speaker for the dead" and "the left hand of darkness"

At first I was so excited about this book. I mean think about it: a long gone race of super intelligent beings leave us with an inheritance of a gateway to 1000 locations where unspeakable riches, both financial and scientific, await their rediscovery. The premise sounds... Read full review
Gavin

rated it really liked it
9 months ago

Shelves: sci-fi
This turned out to be a surprisingly good and entertaining sci-fi tale. When I picked up a copy of the novel I thought I was heading for an Edgar Rice Burroughs type pulp sci-fi story. I'll admit it was the name of the series, the Heechee Saga, that caught me out. It tota... Read full review
Jokoloyo

rated it it was amazing
about 1 year ago

A warning: this novel's main plot is not about Big Dumb Object (BDO) or space opera. This novel is about psychological issue of the main protagonist. The protagonist get the psych problem due to the science-fiction setting.

This novel offers an idea of a psychological/ment... Read full review
Lew Watts

rated it it was amazing
2 months ago

On this dull, foggy, and cold day, I reluctantly finished this sixth re-read of "Gateway." It's still as fresh as when I first read it in a tent in the Orkney Islands 30 years ago, waiting for the rain to stop for just a moment, for the clouds to raise their petticoats be... Read full review

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  • Jem
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  • The World at the End of Time
    The World at the End of Time
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Book Details

Paperback, 278 pages
Published October 12th 2004 by Del Rey (first published 1977
ISBN
0345475836 (ISBN13: 9780345475831)
Edition Language
English
Original Title
Gateway
Characters
Robinette Broadhead
Literary Awards
Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Ditmar Award More…Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Ditmar Award, Apollo Award Less

About this Author

22996. ux50 Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
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They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
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Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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