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Summary: Very good book.
Review: This is a book that will appeal to readers who have an open mind about the human condition. A very good read for fledgeling sci-fi addicts (this is how I got hooked...). Read this for the pleasure of reading. In the world of books, this the paper martini, it helps you unwind. Good work Pohl!
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Summary: Pure drivel!
Review: This was an "Old Wave" guys bizarre attempt to adjust to the "New Wave". The result is a defeatist book that spews pop-Freudian drivel. Guilt's necessary, but the book is so obsessed with it & has little else. Pure drivel!
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Summary: The harsher, but better Pohl
Review: Gateway as an example of how good scifi can be when it carries a political/sociological edge. Like Heinlein's transition works, this book overcomes its narrative flaws and occasional slow spots with a great story and a fistful of moral messages. Instead of reading the comparatively shallow cavalcade of sequels, read "The Gateway Trip" to catch the rest of the story.
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Summary: A good story and a bad story
Review: The mystery of the Heechee and trying to discover how Robinette got rich really pulled me along in this book. The psychology part (I came close to skipping those chapters) is hopelessly dated and moronic.
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Summary: Overall a very good book.
Review: I found this book to be very entertaining, and a very good example of science fiction. However, I found the main character's struggles in therapy to be very dry and boring for most of the story. The story also seemed to drag and I often wanted the author to just get on with the story. Despite my complaints I think that this is a very good book that deserves to be read.
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Summary: A Classic and Pohl's Best Work
Review: This is a great work of science fiction. Outstanding ideas woven into a story masterfully! And probably the best artificial intelligence character ever created (better than HAL, anyway).Yes, you may be uncomfortable with some things as you read this book, but they are not included in the story gratuitously. Everything is there for a reason. A great piece of work, don't miss it.
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Summary: The best sf book ever written
Review: Gateway is the greatest sf book ever written. I read it first as a teenager. It was a library book. The next day I went to the bookstore and bought a copy. I"ve read it every 5 years for the past 20 years. Each time I've read I found myself relating to it in a new and deeper way. the story just keeps growing. The sequels are pretty good too, and unlike the sf 'series' that seem to have infested the bookstores in the past decade these sequels are not merely cookie cutter copies but unique stories that work as a series or individually.
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Summary: Where is the sixth star ¿
Review: More than SF - this is literature !
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Summary: Makes plane flights seem short
Review: This is not only a great book but a great series. I travel constantly and read to pass the time. Often, I begin reading a book only to find myself looking at my watch to see how much time is left before we land because the book doesnt hold my attention. I read this entire book on one flight....the airplane landed with four pages to go and I thought "wow, were here already??"
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Summary: One of the most interesting anti-Science Fiction around.
Review: Fredrick Pohl's 'Gateway' was pulished in the mid 70's, near the tail end of the great popularity Postmodern, or meta-fiction,in modern literature. While I would not call this a work of meta-fiction exactly, there are elements which can be compared to Postmodernism. First, it is a Science Fiction novel that really goes nowhere. Imagine placing the exploits of Broadhead, a sexually frustrated and psychologically problematic character, and place him in the role of hero. Pohl does exactly that, gives the reader a hero who does nothing, isn't really much of anything (doesn't want to go on any adventures!), and when he does, ends up nowhere, untill the very end of the book. This is the anti-Science Fiction I'm talking about. 'Gateway' is the antethesis of the mainstream contemporary Science Fiction novel. In someways it even mimics works like Raymond Federman's (To Whom It May Concern, Double Or Nothing),without as said before, being Postmodern, and yet plays on the not! ion of creating a Science Fiction story that does not operate like a Science Fiction story. Yet, due to the apprehensions of Broadhead, and all of his psychosis, he ends up more real than many characters who are of the Bewulf characterizatiions often found in many recent long drawn out epiosodic Science fiction and Fantasy novels. While I have nothing against these types of novels, and have enjoyed many before, I personally like the tact Pohl used for this novel. Very clever.
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