Series: Heechee Saga #1 I think this may have been my first book by Pohl, and I’m not sure whether there’s any point in my trying to continue the series. The concept behind the book was interesting. Humans discovered an alien space station (rock) with a lot of ships with pre-programmed courses a...
Extract from log: "This is the 281st day out. Metsuoko lost the draw and suicided. Alicia voluntarily suicided 40 days later. We haven't yet reached turnaround, so it's all for nothing. The remaining rations are not going to be enough to support me, even if you include Alicia and Kenny, who are inta...
The book has what I think is the most interesting character I've ever come across in fiction, Siegfrid von Shrink (or at least that's what the main character calls him). I found myself eagerly anticipating all of their sessions and I, the listener, was never disappointed when he was present in the s...
Humans have discovered an ancient and abandoned space depot on an asteroid. The ships will take passengers to set headings and bring them back automatically. Since they can't be reverse engineered, the Gateway Corporation allows "prospectors" to take ships out. There's about one chance in four they'...
Nutshell: Boy named Sue wins lottery twice, whines about it to AI psychiatrist.Two narrative strands drive inexorably toward the crisis point, an encounter with a quantum singularity. First strand is prospective account of things said & done by narrator from his birth to the black hole, whereas se...
There's some SF books out there you just want to cuddle and do hush-baby-hush noises to, just because they're so awesome. Hell yeah, "Gateway" is one of them. Beautiful story, beautiful setting for a SF novel and really hard to make it in the industry with such big names in this specific style, that...
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 me just go add him to the l...
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 none of your bidness ;P, having just re-read the book I can tell you why I did not like it then and why I do like it now. Like my 15 year old ...
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 mys...
I first read this book my sophomore year in high school when I started wolfing down every bit of sci-fi I could get my grubby adolescent hands on.I remember I loved the Heechee Saga, but in the way of old memories (and having read all of the available books at once), things got fuzzy so I could only...
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