![]() This is an old novel, 1960s vintage, but despite the odd charming piece of retro sci-fi jargon (anything to do with computers and robots is down to 'circuits'. The entire narrative is related by him, and alternates between his adventures on Gateway, and his subsequent sessions with a robotic psychiatrist. ![]() ![]() Robinette Broadhead is such a prospector. Huge amounts of money are promised to brave prospectors prepared to fly off on pre-set courses in search of alien technology and artifacts. A relic of a vanished super-race, Gateway is a huge space station filled with alien ships. ![]() Life is brutal and grinding poverty is everywhere.įor the bravest, however, there's an incredible opportunity – Gateway. Food is synthesised from hydrocarbons, and there's not enough to go around. In the future, Earth is massively over-populated – and starving. 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 science, and examines how science and technology could affect the peoples of those worlds. Gateway, by Frederik Pohl, is very much in the grand tradition of 'hard SF'. ![]() Summary: A patient recounts his adventures in space exploration to his robot therapist in a science-fiction classic. ![]()
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