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Gateway

71.4% complete
1977
2008
1 time
31 Chapters
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 Heechee Saga*
#1 of 4
Heechee Saga*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of science fiction books by Frederik Pohl written in the 70s and 80s.

1) Gateway
2) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
3) Heechee Rendezvous
4) The Annals of the Heechee
Copyright © 1977 by Frederick Pohl
No dedication.
My name is Robinette Broadhead, in spite of which I am male.
May contain spoilers
And in my best hypothetical sense, I envy it very much.'
Comments may contain spoilers
I bought Beyond the Blue Event Horizon many years ago and it sat on my self unread.  When I decided to pick it up I realized that it was part of a series.  That's when I got Gateway.
Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 19-Jun-2022

Publications

 01-Mar-1978
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Mar-1978
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.95
Pages*:
313
Catalog ID:
25378
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
1530
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-25378-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-25378-1
Printing:
2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Boris Vallejo  - Cover Artist
RICH MAN,
DEAD MAN


Those were the choices Gateway offered - the same for women, too, of course. Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...  and on reaches of unimaginable horror. The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldn't know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses.

When Bob Broadhead came out to Gateway, he thought his problem was simple - wait till the mission felt right, then ship out. But watching returned prospectors scraped from the insides of their ships, falling in love, feeling his nerve dwindle - all these things changed him.

Then, years later, Robinette Broadhead, a three-mission veteran, famous and permanently rich, has to face just 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 he finally drove himself to take!

A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION
FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
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Notes and Comments:
First Ballentine Books Edition: January 1978
Second Printing: March 1978

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Author(s)

Frederik Pohl  
Birth: 26 Nov 1919 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Death: 02 Sep 2013 Palatine, IL, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" page in "The Siege of Eternity":

A mutliple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Frederik Pohl has done just about everything one can do in the science-fiction field.  His most famous work is undoubtedly the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.  Man Plus won the Nebula Award.  His mature work is marked by a serious intellectual agenda and strongly held sociopolitical beliefs, without sacrificing narrative drive.  In addition to his successful solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated successfully with a variety of writers, including C. M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.  A Pohl/Kornbluth collabortation, The Space Merchants, is a long-time classic of satiric science fiction.  The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.  Pohl has been a magazine editor in the field since he was very young, piloting World of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine.  He also has edited original-story anthologies, including the early and notable Star series of the early 1950s.  He has at various times been a literary agent, and editor of lines of science fiction books, and a president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  For a number of years he has been active in the World SF movement.  He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, a prominent academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live outside Chicago, Illinois.

Awards

1978Center for the Study of Science FictionCampbell Award Winner
1978Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Winner
1978Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaNebula Award - Best Novel Winner
1978World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Winner
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  • I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
  • Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
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  • When listing chapters, I only list chapters relevant to the story. I will usually leave off Author Notes, Indices, Acknowledgements, etc unless they are relevant to the story or the book is non-fiction.
  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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