Gateway (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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For a sci-fi book, it is also very clearly Of Its Time, what with all the casual references to swinging sexuality and dated therapy movements like primal screaming. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Pero por encima de todo es un estudio sobre la culpa, sus consecuencias y las pesadas cargas que pone en nosotros mismos como seres humanos. 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. The first, with Klara and three others, is unsuccessful, and afterwards tension rises between them until he gives her a vicious beating.

Sarcasm drips from each black humoured page and one could imagine that this is a possible future in corporate owned space habitats, planets, and solar systems. Imagine being a coward your whole life, and the one time you stop being a coward you accidentally a huge disaster. That´s its biggest achievement, the use of sci-fi to throw society the ugly picture of itself right in the face.We're given all the pieces and as the mystery unfolds, I loved the details of the personal tragedy most.

Pero aunque no comparta algunas cosas, tampoco me escandalizo tan pronto, así que el resultado me ha satisfecho.He and his friends have been talking about sex scenes in SF novels (a notoriously sensitive topic), and Pohl is criticizing them on the grounds that they aren't necessary to the plot. You would think such a setup would be concerned with the mystery of the aliens gradually unfolding and the aliens eventually showing up to say hello, you would be light-years from the truth. The Gateway Corporation takes control of the asteroid on behalf of the United States, the Soviet Union, the New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil. On the second trip, he goes by himself and inadvertently makes a discovery through unauthorized experimentation when he becomes infuriated after reaching Gateway Two, a smaller version of Gateway with only about 150 ships. His public, outwardly going face may have been completely charming, but the reader doesn't see that face very much because that's not what this book is about.