![]() ![]() Programming in a new destination consists of twiddling twelve wheels until something glows pink, and squeezing the go-teat. ![]() Only some of the thousand-odd starships left by the Heechee work, and nobody knows exactly how. Gateway is largely a Deconstruction of Imported Alien Phlebotinum. In between his therapy sessions with the robot psychiatrist he's nicknamed Sigfrid Von Shrink, he tells the story of his time on the titular asteroid Gateway, where he eventually made his fortune. ![]() Robinette Broadhead (who is, in spite of his name, male) is very rich, and very troubled. Gateway, the first novel in the series, is widely recognized as a classic of the genre, and a perfect example of New Wave science fiction besides. More particularly, humanity's discovery of Gateway, a large asteroid base filled with Heechee tunnels and covered in long-abandoned faster-than-light starships. Frederik Pohl's most famous Science Fiction creation, the Heechee Saga (beginning with a short story, The Merchants of Venus, though most people know it through the 1976 novel Gateway) details humanity's discovery of the Heechee, a long-vanished race of advanced aliens. ![]()
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