Gateway - Frederik Pohl Reviews

Gateway, by Frederik Pohl, is very much in the grand tradition of 'hard SF'. Whereas much of what gets put in the science-fiction section of bookshops is actually little more than fantasy 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 ...  Read the complete review

I rate really good books on how many times you can re-read them and still get as much enjoyment out of them as the first read. I’ve read perhaps hundreds of good books in my life, but only a few I would call really great on the basis I can read them repeatedly and still be engrossed by them. The three stories I would count as being ...  Read the complete review

A race called the Heechee, whose civilisation flourished far before that of humanity, have left behind a unique legacy: Gateway. On it are a large number of spaceships of several different designs, each with pre-programmed routes stored in their databanks. The catch, however, is that no human has ever been able to decode the routes the ...  Read the complete review