Gateway (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine IF winning the Hugo for IF three years in a row. Gateway is one of those sci-fi classics that I am supposed to have absorbed if I want to consider myself well read in the genre.

The action switches in between Broadhead's past story of how he came to Gateway and struck it big and Broadhead's present therapy sessions. The discovery of an ancient abandoned alien space station together with hundreds of ships is an interesting premiss, but the execution feels terribly dated now – in fact the book feels like it was published early sixties, not the late seventies.

When the ships arrive, their crews find to their horror that they are in the gravitational grip of a black hole without enough power to break free. The story is told in flashbacks with a present day frame story narrated in the first person present tense, taking place entirely within an A. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.

It is by one of the stalwarts of geek writing, the man who, as an editor, made sure Dhalgren was published, fergoshsakes! Also, the book itself states that the Heechee ship engine is a mystery because, whenever they try to disassemble it, it explodes with tremendous force. The element of high risk, all or nothing stakes while being charged extravagant daily fees ramped up the urgency to start the dangerous prospecting. The big chance for the humans comes when a human finds an alien mining facility in the depths of Venus.They cannot live a normal free-and-easy, give-and-take life with a sexual partner for more than a short time. They abandoned it long before mankind stopped throwing their feces at each other and invented the wheel. Suffice it to say that he was a douchebag on Gateway ( no, his suppressed homosexuality does not excuse him beating another human being) but one of his trips, despite making him rich, really messes with his mind. And then you just get the sense that he considers himself the victim of the whole thing, of his whole life, of other people's choices. Since the main story is told in flashback, and he is still a whining, self-absorbed shithead in the frame story, we spend the whole book knowing that he will not grow or change at any point through the adventure he is relating to us, and for all we know his whining self-absorbed shitheadedness will only get worse.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Pero aunque no comparta algunas cosas, tampoco me escandalizo tan pronto, así que el resultado me ha satisfecho. The story is all about Robinette Broadhead and his experiences on Gateway and on his missions to the unknown. Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere. So this isn't a book about Rob finding out he's gay it's more of a book where Rob is a millionaire dipshit who learns Freud was right.On January 6, 2019; Skybound Entertainment announced that they have reached an agreement to option Frederik Pohl’s 1977 science fiction novel, Gateway. Clearly what Pohl had in mind was to explore the psychological consequences of the circumstances surrounding his protagonist, who is not even written as a particularly amiable fellow. A whiny jackass narrator spends half his time raging against a psychopathic punch card Freud machine during "therapy sessions". But he gets lucky and wins the lottery, and enough money to travel to Gateway and maybe become really rich. Eingeschobene Seiten mit fiktiven Kleinanzeigen, Astronomie-Vorträgen, Statistiken und Expeditionsprotokollen der Gateway-Welt schmücken die Geschichte zusätzlich.

Aparte de sus inserciones de texto (informes, conferencias y lo mejor, bizarros anuncios) que son maravillosas. Pohl nos mete en una novela innovadora, con una estructura particular para su época y una ciencia ficción que nunca llega a ser hard. Pohl didn't bother with too much science, just a few interesting scientific details here and there to convince us he's, you know - scientific and stuff.El resto, tanto la tecnología como los temas que llega a tratar son peculiarmente extrapolables a cualquier momento. In Gateway this doesn't happen, which is especially odd and vexing considering that a full half of the book is devoted to Bob's lengthy sessions with a computerized psychiatrist. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.