![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans have partially learned how to operate them. Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are located at Gateway. 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. Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere. Gateway is an asteroid hollowed out by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race. A short concluding chapter, cut before publication, was later published in the August 1977 issue of Galaxy. Gateway was serialized in Galaxy prior to its hardcover publication. The novel was adapted into a computer game in 1992. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Gateway won the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1978 Locus Award for Best Novel, the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1978 John W. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall). Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |