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Gateway

Gateway

ISBN13: 9780345346902
ISBN10: 0345346904
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Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and 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 and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...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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: William Gaboda, February 13, 2010 (view all comments by William Gaboda)
One of the classics of latter day science fiction, Gateway is endlessly imaginative, creating the mysterious Heechee while extrapolating a crowded, hungry and miserable Earth. Refugees - future day Forty-niners - hock themselves (and their relatives!) for a chance at finding the left-behind artifacts of the long departed Heechee by flying off on the Heechees' eons old interstellar ships. The lucky few who find remnants of the Heechee are rewarded with vast riches, but most find little and many don't return at all.

Gateway is the first of a series by Frederick Pohl, who is a protean master of hard science fiction. His vision is by turns dazzling, bleak and, always, fascinating.

If you are new to the Heechee saga or Frederick Pohl, Gateway is the place to start.
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ISBN:: 9780345346902
Author:: Pohl, Frederik
Publisher:: Del Rey Books
Location:: New York : Ballantine, 1987.
Subject:: General
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Science Fiction - General
Subject:: Science fiction
Edition Description:: Ballantine Book
Series:: Heechee Saga
Series Volume:: 819-A
Publication Date:: February 1987
Binding:: Mass Market Paperbou
Language:: English
Pages:: 320
Dimensions:: 6.94x4.22x.85 in. .36 lbs.

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