Gateway (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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Aparte de sus inserciones de texto (informes, conferencias y lo mejor, bizarros anuncios) que son maravillosas. That is, the Heechee ships were able to move at the speed of light and even faster, but one month of time passing on the ship meant one month of time passing on Gateway when, in reality, one month passing on the ship would mean many years of time passing on Gateway. One part space prospecting, one part therapy, neither of them with much traditional narrative beats, neither of them seeming to have so much to do with one another, both filled with seemingly irrelevant downtime and at-time meandering bits that seemed to have little point - but they join together at the very end and at that point it all, for the most part, makes sense. Publishers Weekly stated that "Since it began with the novel Gateway (1977), Pohl's Heechee series has been among the most consistently daring of SF's continuing enterprises".

The hero has pushed the love of his life into a black hole, but the memory is so traumatic that he's blocked it. What makes the book remarkable is that it is an exploration of the human psyche rather than the sci-fi environment. Pórtico es todo un estudio sobre la psicología humana ante situaciones extremas, y sus consecuencias. Civilizaciones extraterrestres desaparecidas, expediciones suicidas, inteligencias artificiales diseñadas para el psicoanálisis, sexo intergaláctico.How his mother dies, not getting her replacement lung because there is either money for that or Bob's treatments, was yet another typical example of a futuristic human society where human life isn't actually worth much if anything and it was really sad. Broadhead, however, concludes that this means that they will still be alive when he dies, with Klara still believing that he betrayed them to save himself. 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. Of course it's tragic how many people got killed trying to unlock the secrets of the Heechee but that gave the whole endeavor a kinda frontier flair.

Here is a relevant example passage from Gateway: There are people who never pass a certain point in their emotional development. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.The Gateway Corporation administers the asteroid on behalf of the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil. But he gets lucky and wins the lottery, and enough money to travel to Gateway and maybe become really rich.