Gateway (and Gateway two) is an ancient alien spaceport, complete with a fleet of ancient spaceships that are pre-programmed to go places. Apparently, there has been another race, named Heechee, and they left these structures behind (as well as thousands of ships at Gateway). Scientific advancement has led to some level of space travel and colonies have been set up on the nearby planets of Venus and Mars to limited success.

The story was initially serialized in Galaxy beginning November 1976, with illustrations by Vincent DiFate, and was published as a book by St.

Publishers Weekly stated that "Since it began with the novel Gateway (1977), Pohl's Heechee series has been among the most consistently daring of SF's continuing enterprises". His narration and "aw shucks" persona was a good attempt at making Bob seem the tiniest bit NOT like an a-hole. Not to mention that space really is a dangerous place - even more so if you don't really know what you're doing.

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. On January 6, 2019; Skybound Entertainment announced that they have reached an agreement to option Frederik Pohl’s 1977 science fiction novel, Gateway.The economic side of living at Gateway is presented in detail, commencing with the contract all explorers must enter into with the Gateway Corporation, and including how some awards are determined. Bottom line for me: the main character you're supposed to sympathize with is a casual playboy mysognist. Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere. He beat up his on-again off-again "girlfriend" because she slept with another man right after he had slept with another woman.

Both turned out to be fairly interesting though I did personally enjoy the space adventuring the most. The part that interested me was the idea of a space gold rush to discover the Heechee and the archaeology to recover interesting artefacts.Pero es una novela que invita a leerla del tirón, que no te suelta, que te entretiene, y que probablemente es diferente de lo que esperaba. Without that, the work would be an instant masterpiece, but by slowing the plot, losing suspense, and not really giving a satisfying conclusion, all linked to the problem of this unnecessary extra plotline, Pohl missed his place in the grand hall of sci-fi behemoth he could easily have entered after The Space Merchants by simply cooking with the same recipes. The prospecting comes from taking a ship out and seeing what they can find, the alien artifacts could be worth millions if they are useful for science, or a prospector could go out and come back with nothing, or they could not come back. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Except he was always kind of a jerk, and while his reason for sliding further down into a jerky abyss is ultimately a pretty good one, he also did plenty of stuff earlier in the timeline to evaporate every drop of my sympathy.