Advantages: Great characters and cleverly structured Disadvantages: The domestic violence bit sticks out like a sore thumb
...with lasers instead of swords, Gateway is part of the Arthur C Clarke, Bradbury and Asimov school that seeks to extrapolate fantastic worlds from real current science, and examines how science and technology could affect the peoples of those worlds. In the future, Earth is massively over-populated - and starving. Food is synthesised from hydrocarbons, and there's not enough to go around. Life is brutal and grinding poverty is everywhere. For the ... ...of a vanished super-race, Gateway is a huge space station filled with alien ships. Huge amounts of money are promised to brave prospectors prepared to fly off on pre-set courses in search of alien technology and artifacts. Robinette Broadhead is such a prospector. The entire narrative is related by him, and alternates between his adventures on Gateway, and his subsequent sessions with a robotic psychiatrist. This is an old novel, 1960s vintage, but ...
Olly_Plimsoll 22.05.2009
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Some SF writers have astonishingly long productive careers. Frederik Pohl started in 1940 ... more
and with Cyril Kornbluth co-wrote such classic 1950s satires as The Space Merchants. He won Hugo and Nebula awards for the 1977 Gateway, a major novel combinin...
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