Pohl lets Bob tell most of the story while visiting his shrink, which gives a lot better insight to Broadheads life, than a straight telling us about the facts as they where happening, could have and this is the real strength of this book. But that is Frederik Pohl's job to tell you that story, not mine. If you can find your way to Gateway you are free to take a Heechee ship and go – if you have the guts. You see, a long time ago the mysterious aliens called the Heechee left a lot of spaceships at the Gateway station, ships that may take you to riches beyond your dreams or directly to a not so glamorous death. Not winning enough, to live comfortably for the rest of his life on the winnings, he decides to buy an even bigger lottery ticket, namely a ticket to the Gateway space station. Campbell award, Gateway is one of those books that everybody with the tiniest interest in SF should have read and if possible more that once.īob Broadhead is food miner with no real hope of bettering his situation, until he wins in the lottery. Justly awarded the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the John W. Rereading classics or old favourites is something that I've done all to seldom the last couple of years, which is both a testimony to the high quality of the book published today and the fact that I actually have the money to buy new books.

Gateway is a classic science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl.

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