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Title	:	Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)
Author	:	Frederik Pohl
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	October 12th 2004 by Del Rey (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera

Gateway (Heechee Saga #1)

Frederik Pohl

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

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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)

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Before I began writing the review I searched for images of Gateway. This was the first one in the results:I really have no clue about the relevance. When I think about a gateway I think about something like this: or something like the following which resonates better with any serious reader:If you have even passing interest in science fiction you have most definitely heard about this novel. This one is a classic of genre with a lot of awards to prove it. Imagine somebody found a habitable

Old science fiction, what is it, lets see 1976. Hmm, kind of quaint, no?Oh but I like old stuff, new science fiction gives me a headache, all that sensory overload and made up words.So you admit you cant take the pace any more. Just settling down with a 43 year old Hugo n Nebula winner, kids all grown up, maturing your annuities, undoing one more notch on your belt, I get the picture.Well, thats not exactly the way Id have put it So whats it about, this old classic?Well, er its kind of sad.

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 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 is good science fiction, I can see why it won the Hugo. Essentially the story is about a time in the distant future where overpopulation and over consumption of resources have left humans in a regrettable state, but not without some promise. Oil and minerals are mined and then somehow synthetically turned into food. Also interplanetary colonization has spread the burden out some, but life on (or rather in Venus) and Mars is no picnic. One way out is to become a

4.0 stars. I just re-read this story on May 13, 2010 after having first read it back in 1998. The downgrade from 4.5 stars to 4.0 stars has less to do with the quality of this book (which I still think is excellent) and more to do with the quality of other books I have read since my first reading of Gateway which have caused me to rasie the bar somewhat. This is still a "classic SF story" that is worthy of the title and one that I recommend to any fan of science fiction. It is not as dated as

Executive Summary: I had low expectations coming into this considering it was "classic" sci-fi and ended up enjoying it more than I expected. 3.5 StarsAudiobook: I thought Oliver Wyman did a good job with the book, but nothing spectatular. She spoke clearly and the volume was good.If you're a purist, I should warn that this is apparently not the full text despite it be listed as unabridged. I don't know exactly what's missing, but I've been told that it's some kind of supplement "documents" that

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-absorbed