But it biggest problem is the time it takes to get going, with the first half of the book feeling like a big delaying tactic with some heavy handed plot sign-posts thrown in. Allí habla de la culpa, del dolor o los remordimientos que lo reconcomen por dentro desde su infancia hasta su vida adulta pero que no deja salir.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Between bouts of chain smoking, we are treated to Rob’s terrible personal inner thoughts throughout the book. In GATEWAY it's made clear in the text that our protagonist, Robinette, is an unreliable narrator and a terrible person.Gateway deservedly won both the Hugo and Nebula award in 1978 but it really is more of a psychological / emotional novel, this one is not for kids. Me ha gustado mucho la novela, a pesar de sus defectos y de algunos temas que trata que para alguien como yo, un aburrido y poco actual con algunas ideas, le chirrían. Imagine being a coward your whole life, and the one time you stop being a coward you accidentally a huge disaster.

It's an interplanetary human society that without religion and tradition leaves many of its members morally rudderless. No idea how to refuel, no idea how far/long it will take or if they have locked in the coordinates to a supernova. As the series progresses, humans are able to use and sometimes reverse engineer Heechee artifacts, including a working Heechee plant that converts simple elements into food.Suffice it to say that he was a douchebag on Gateway ( no, his suppressed homosexuality does not excuse him beating another human being) but one of his trips, despite making him rich, really messes with his mind. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Scientific advancement has led to some level of space travel and colonies have been set up on the nearby planets of Venus and Mars to limited success. Bottom line for me: the main character you're supposed to sympathize with is a casual playboy mysognist. Thankfully, in the real world, many of Freud's theories have been largely debunked as nonsensical and homophobic so its almost laughable when Pohl attempts to blame the protagonist's homosexual desire (and resulting homophobic reaction) on his mother's nurturing techniques and a rectal thermometer - I say "almost laughable" because its also a deeply oppressive and damaging world view that is sadly still prevalent today.

Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Gracias a ellos conoceremos Pórtico, un asteroide reconvertido en un puerto interestelar explotado por una Corporación multimillonaria. I have a theory, based on nothing more than a dirty mind and my own propensity for making silly bets, that Pohl wrote Gateway to win a bet he'd made while drunk. However, the other and much larger part hated him because he was such a crybaby and took his frustration out on Klara.That´s its biggest achievement, the use of sci-fi to throw society the ugly picture of itself right in the face. Also, we don't really see Broadhead's public, outgoing face in the novel so perhaps he's really handsome and charming in social situations: there are certainly hints to that effect interspersed throughout the novel. Avec "Gateway" et "Beyond the Bue Event Horizon" j'ai retrouvé immédiatement ce plaisir d'un extrordinaire voyage virtuel dans le cosmos. The Heechee are a long gone race who have lead little trace of their existence except from a few abandoned outposts. It feels very naturalistic: we never encounter any aliens because they are long gone, and we don't understand their amazing technological artifacts at all.

Peterson weiter, dessen Romane den Lotterie-Spiel-Modus von Gateway auf andere Weise, aber dennoch sehr ähnlich verwenden. Since the main story is told in flashback, and he is still a whining, self-absorbed shithead in the frame story, we spend the whole book knowing that he will not grow or change at any point through the adventure he is relating to us, and for all we know his whining self-absorbed shitheadedness will only get worse. Robinette (Bob) Broadhead goes to Gateway, an ancient alien asteroid base, with old preprogrammed interstellar craft, located near Venus. A few, however, result in the discovery of new Heechee artifacts and habitable planets in other star systems, making the crews extremely wealthy. ISFDB catalogs editions published in six foreign languages: French and German, 1978; Dutch and Italian, 1979; Portuguese, 1986; Hungarian, 1991.In 2017 Skybound Entertainment made an agreement with the Pohl estate for another attempt at making a TV series but it failed to begin production as well. Esta es sencilla, coherente y explicada, pero sin profundizar en jerga científica ni nada por el estilo.