Gateway - Softcover

Frederik Pohl

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857988183 ISBN 13: 9781857988185

Publisher: Millennium Paperbacks, 1999

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Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.

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ed 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

About the Author:

* #41 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.

* ‘Frederik Pohl, one of the old pros of the genre, never takes unnecessary risks. For him, science fiction is a form of play – an excusable indulgence since he plays it so much better than most people.’ The New York Times Book Review

* 'The most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced' -- Kingsley Amis

* ‘One of Frederik Pohl's best novels – and my personal favourite. Complex people in tough situations on a marvelous and gritty world – who could ask for more from any novel?’ Greg Bear

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