A fascinating concept, one where humanity discovers an asteroid, hollowed out and developed into a space station by a seemingly extinct species. A space station that has thousands of spaceships that carry either 1, 3, or 5 persons and go to destinations that are unknown.The protagonist, Robinette, d...
Humans find an abandoned alien base with ships on it pre-progarammed for various flights. The humans cannot tell where the flights are going or when they will return. Any changes made to the flight equipment end in disaster for the crew. And yet, humans, mad as we are, still fly these things around ...
Pohl won a Hugo and a Nebula for Gateway, deservedly so.Frederik Pohl was, of course, one of the Golden Age writers of SF. But Gateway showed that he was hardly stuck in the 1950s. It was very innovative for its time. The general tone is quite modern. Much of the book is about the therapy of Robinet...
Pohl won a Hugo and a Nebula for Gateway, deservedly so.Frederik Pohl was, of course, one of the Golden Age writers of SF. But Gateway showed that he was hardly stuck in the 1950s. It was very innovative for its time. The general tone is quite modern. Much of the book is about the therapy of Robinet...
One of the great Science Fiction novels and certainly Pohl's cleverest idea. An abandoned alien space station is discovered orbiting the sun. Speculators and daredevils set off in alien spaceships with no control over their destinations in hopes of recovering alien technology they can patent and m...
You climb into a ship and you don't know where it will go, or if you'll survive the journey, but you do it for the chance at a better life, maybe even Major Medical if you're lucky. But how far will you go and who will you sell out for the promise of a life of comfort, free from food shortages and t...
Picked this up because it's one of those 'classics' of SF that I'd never got around to reading, even though I've seen it around on bookshelves for practically my whole life. (Just went to check, it was published in 1977.)The writing style is very typical of the 70's, and also, was not really what I ...
(Note: This review was originally written in 2006.)I'm moving on through some of the classic science fiction novels, and Gateway came recommended to me through other threads I've posted. I had never been much interested in Pohl before, even though I remember seeing his name when I was younger. His s...
I have a theory, based on nothing more than a dirty mind and my own propensity for making silly bets, that Pohl wrote Gateway to win a bet he'd made while drunk. He and his friends have been talking about sex scenes in SF novels (a notoriously sensitive topic), and Pohl is criticizing them on the gr...
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