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Gateway [Paperback]


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4.0 out of 5 stars Bob's Excellent Adventures Feb 22 2013
By John M. Ford TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
Bob Broadhead toils away at a boring labor job with little hope of anything better. When he wins the lottery, the prize money is enough for one-way passage to the asteroid Gateway. Its main attraction is a long-abandoned Heechee spaceport. The Heechee are long gone, but have left behind nearly a thousand spacecraft. Most can be made to work by twisting a few dials and pushing the launch button. But nobody knows how to control where they go. Bob joins the pool of prospectors who risk such trips, hoping to find high tech artifacts or new worlds.

The story is told as a series of therapy sessions between Bob and an artificial intelligence therapy program, alternating with flashbacks to Bob's earlier life and his three prospecting missions. The therapy discussions are sometimes painful and "Sigfrid" the therapist is both persistent and subtle. Even though his presence in therapy makes it clear that Bob survived all three missions, there are still surprises, puzzles, and interpersonal tensions. Although this is a complete story on its own, Bob's life story continues in Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Heechee Rendezvous, and The Annals of the Heechee.

This is an enjoyable story and worthy of its good reputation as a science fiction classic. It has an early Heinlein feel to it. Some of this comes from the institutional setting of the Gatway asteroid and the corporation that runs it. Some comes from Bob's difficulties understanding women. At least Bob--unlike a number of Heinlein characters-- knows that he has issues and looks for help to deal with them.

It's a good read. And a good listen as an audio book. Enjoy!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Total crap disguised as Scifi Jun 22 2012
By peppe51
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Just finished Gateway and I must admit that I sailed through the last 60-70 pages when I realized how lame this story was. And yet Pohl was working on an interesting premise: the discovery of alien artifacts and most importantly- functional interstellar craft. The main character Robinette Broadhead is an irksome wise-guy and his sessions with a robotic shrink all through the novel add nothing to the story- rather they are a frustrating distraction. All the characters are hedonistic to the hilt- wonder how Earth is still in one piece...Incidentally, how does a planet with 25 billion inhabitants, short on food and energy afford to send so many spacecraft to Venus, Mars and elsewhere on a routine basis? Why would authorities allow anybody from anywhere to see let alone manipulate the greatest discovery in humankind? I believe Frederick Pohl is just using SciFi as a vehicle for his libertine and warped view of mankind's future- or what he wishes it to be. He is hardly ahead of his time- such depravity has existed all through mankind's history. Wrapping it up in techno-jargon doesn't make this SciFi.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Sci Fi title that really rended my heart Sep 4 2003
By James Henry
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Today I finished GATEWAY at 4am after staying up most of the night engrossed in Pohl's masterpiece. Yes, it's that good in my opinion. And quite frankly it devasted me. If you like your SF with emotion, feeling and fully 3 dimensionally characters, You will love this book. It will break your heart. Pohl leads you up to a point where you think things will be OK, then leads you careening over the edge. It really hit me hard, emotionally. Some people would say that this is melodrama, but I don't think so.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gateway
In 1976 Frederik Pohl, a New York author born in 1919, began a five-novel series about a fictional culture called the Heechee Saga. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Joe Boudreault
3.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly what I expected...
I had read about this novel on many "best of" lists, and had looked for it in bookstores for a long time. Read more
Published on Jan 12 2010 by R. J. Hellewell
4.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding story
"Gateway" tells the story of the ultimate futuristic gold rush. In the 21st century, an asteroid known as Gateway is discovered containing hundreds of ancient space... Read more
Published on May 7 2004 by Alex Frantz
4.0 out of 5 stars Despite structural flaws, a satisfying read
Frederik Pohl has always been one of my favourite SF authors. As a double Hugo/Nebula winner for 1997's best novel, that makes it (at least nominally) one of the best of the... Read more
Published on April 16 2004 by RansomOttawa
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine beginning.
I'm always reluctant to start a new series of Sci-fi novels because of the usual let-down that ensues after a fine beginning novel. Read more
Published on April 14 2004 by D. Knouse
3.0 out of 5 stars Eh
Rating: 2.5/5

I expected much better from a book that's touted as an SF classic. The background in which Gateway is set is brilliant, and the only reason why my rating's not... Read more

Published on Sep 20 2003 by "hjsukthankar"
3.0 out of 5 stars Ruined By Hollywood Angst
This book has some merits. Pohl paints a convincing miners' world by giving us a sense of its grit and stench. The lives of the miners are also handled well. Read more
Published on Jun 20 2003 by Barry C. Chow
5.0 out of 5 stars Evokes fascination and terror.
Gateway evokes the fascination and terror of the unknown universe better than any other science fiction book I know. Read more
Published on April 23 2003 by Richard S. Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic
Let's see what I can remember...
There were a lot of good things about this book. The narrator, Robinette Broadhead, was fun to read about. Read more
Published on Mar 28 2003 by R. Sundquist
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard science fiction combined with character study
The premise of Gateway is simple enough - humankind has discovered a space station abandoned 500 000 years ago by a technologically superior race (the "Heechee"). Read more
Published on Mar 9 2003 by Craig MACKINNON
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