Gateway took this initial concept one step further by postulating an asteroid, overlooked because of its orbit outside the plane of the ecliptic, filled with Heechee tunnels and artifacts as well as hundreds of faster-than-light spaceships, equipped with landers, which could depart to random destinations. An international corporation is established to manage the exploration and whatever treasures are found, and human “prospectors” from Earth who can pay the price to travel to the Gateway are sent out to explore. On January 6, 2019; Skybound Entertainment announced that they have reached an agreement to option Frederik Pohl’s 1977 science fiction novel, Gateway. The deal includes all other volumes in the Heechee saga. Although without a time frame for it, Skybound plans to produce a TV series based on Gateway. [7] Reception [ edit ]

A century in the future, humans land on Venus and colonize it. Below the surface, thousands of miles of artificial tunnels are discovered. They are believed to have been built thousands of years ago by an alien species known as the Heechee, but little else is known about them until an explorer discovers a Heechee ship, intact and operational, in one of the tunnels. Displaying Abstract ] (May 15, 1966). "A Correction - Article - NYTimes.com". The New York Times . Retrieved August 10, 2014. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 [4] and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers. [5] [a] Then Blue Event Horizon comes around, and it's a huge departure from Gateway. It's more about the universe Robin now exists in, a handful of other characters, and a bunch of Heechee stuff. I enjoyed it, but it was significantly weaker than Gateway.I punched her four or five times, as hard as I could, on the breast, in the face, in the belly. She fell to the ground, sobbing. I knelt beside her, lifted her up with one hand and, in absolutely cold blood, slapped her twice more. It was all happening as if choreographed by God, absolutely inevitably; and at the same I could feel that I was breathing as hard as though I'd climbed a mountain on a dead run. The blood was thundering in my ears. Everything I saw was hazed with red. Mnogo smo neprakticni, negativni ali i puni potencijala i na ovaj ili onaj nacin nekako uspevamo da gazimo napred, cesto gazeci sami sebi. Da li nam se sme verovati, nadam se da ce jednoga dana i u stvarnom zivotu neka vanzemaljska napredna civilizacija gledati blagonaklono na nas i dati nam sansu i pored svih nasih nedostataka - jednoga dana kada opasnost ne budu samo tehnologija i ljudska cud vec i nesto realno nerealno iz zasada iskljucivo domena maste. Gateway, though, just — teems isn't the right word, because when dread starts teeming, it pretty much stops being dread. Better to say the novel is coated in dread: even in the scenes that aren't set on the unsettling alien space station from which it takes its name, you can smell the feeling. And most of those scenes take place years in the story's future, in the safe, comfortable office of a friendly robot psychologist the protagonist is voluntarily seeing.

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Document Number: H1000078817 When an author of the stature of Frederik Pohl says that . . . Gateway is the best thing he has ever written, it deserves careful attention. . . . Get this one.” — Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

The Gateway Series in Order (5 Books)

Frederik Pohl, Nov. 26, 1919‐Sept. 2, 2013". Thewaythefutureblogs.com. September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on September 7, 2013 . Retrieved September 7, 2013. I can easily see why I did not finish the book in my younger days. Bob Broadhead is not a terribly sympathetic, or even likable, protagonist. The psychology sessions can be painful to read. And Bob has very little agency; he is more victim of circumstance than action hero. As someone who likes to read about people who fight their way out of a fray, successfully engineer a solution to a problem, or cleverly deduce the truth of a situation, the story is not one that I would have sought out on my own. I also tend to prefer romances that have a bit of wish fulfillment in them, rather than an unflinching portrayal of the ugliness that is often intertwined with passion in human relationships. The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl - Blog Archive - The Quadrumvirate". Thewaythefutureblogs.com . Retrieved August 10, 2014.