Gateway (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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The two main characters are Bob, his full name is Robinette Broadhead, and Sigfrid, a psychotherapist.

The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship, how long the trip will last, or even if enough fuel is available to get back. On the surface, it seems to be mostly about prospecting for Alien tech and new discoveries about the missing Heechee, but in reality, it's all about psychology, and more than that, about Freudian therapy.Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. In 2015 Variety announced that a Gateway TV series was going to be written and produced by David Eick and Josh Pate for Syfy, although it failed to enter production. Also, we don't really see Broadhead's public, outgoing face in the novel so perhaps he's really handsome and charming in social situations: there are certainly hints to that effect interspersed throughout the novel.

I. therapist, Sigfrid von Shrink, and protagonist Robinette Broadhead is surely Pohl's best developed and most complex character. It also might take you very, very far away, but not so fast that you don't run out of food and wind up arriving there dead, or with nothing to eat on the way back but your fellow shipmates. 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. I can't think of anything that really detracts significantly enough from this book to not give it the full 5 stars. He captured the nostalgic Golden Age sense-of-wonder feeling of the vastness and mystery of outer space, the grandiose and awesome passage of time with the artifacts of the ancient Heechee civilization, and blended it quite successfully with the more modern, New Wave characterization and exploration of the mind.

Me ha gustado mucho la novela, a pesar de sus defectos y de algunos temas que trata que para alguien como yo, un aburrido y poco actual con algunas ideas, le chirrían. Between bouts of chain smoking, we are treated to Rob’s terrible personal inner thoughts throughout the book.