Der Roman verfolgt zwei Handlungstränge, die sich kapitelweise abwechseln, beide erzählt aus der Perspektive des Hauptprotagonisten Robinette Broadhead, auch "Bob" oder "Robbie" genannt. Pero por encima de todo es un estudio sobre la culpa, sus consecuencias y las pesadas cargas que pone en nosotros mismos como seres humanos. 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. Oh but I like old stuff, new science fiction gives me a headache, all that sensory overload and made up words. Also interspersed throughout the book are little snippets of Gateway trivia: fun facts, interviews with Heechee scholars, classified ads from the local Gateway paper, and mission summaries from prospectors who struck it big and from those who didn't do so well.

I'd also recently finished his enjoyable capitalist-dystopian novels The Space Merchants and sequel The Merchants' War. You can earn a lot of money when you make a new discovery - an unknown star or a new planet in an other solar system, or when you find signs of alien intelligent life and things like that. 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. Edition 1978/ gateway frederik pohl/ good condition paperback/ watermarks on bottom corner near spine on pages 270- end of book/ very small tear on bottom of page 258/.En un futuro en donde la Tierra se encuentra superpoblada y sus recursos son limitados, existe la posibilidad de convertirse en un prospector de Pórtico: un asteroide usado como puerto espacial por una civilización desaparecida hace miles de años.

She's another prospector on Gateway and she has a pretty complex relationship with Robinette Broadhead. 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. Sadly there is nothing to like about Pohl's protagonist in this novel, in fact Bob is a despicable human being on all accounts (and not in an intentionally anti-hero sorta way either). Those who choose to risk their lives cram the limited space with equipment and hopefully enough food for the trip, but sometimes it is not enough, and they have to resort first to cannibalism, and if that is not enough, to suicide. No idea how to refuel, no idea how far/long it will take or if they have locked in the coordinates to a supernova.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. Aunque todos los elementos de la historia que encontramos en Pórtico resultan bastante atractivos de por sí, lo que convierte el clásico de Pohl en una novela tan sobresaliente es sin duda su trepidante ritmo narrativo, la inteligencia con que están hiladas las diferentes tramas y el certero perfil psicológico que hace Frederik Pohl de su personaje principal, quien poco a poco irá perdiendo el beneplácito del lector e irá revelando en su lugar una personalidad grotesca, repleta de inseguridades. On his third trip, the Gateway Corporation tries something different – sending two armored fives, one slightly behind the other, to the same destination, one rejected by most ships' computers; each crewmember is promised a million-dollar bonus. The narration is also aided by little advertisements, letters and other types of notices interspersed through out the book.

El resto, tanto la tecnología como los temas que llega a tratar son peculiarmente extrapolables a cualquier momento. was published in 1976 but the themes seem pretty contemporary some 40 years later: environmental destruction, economic inequality, social alienation, childlessness. Earth to Pohl - a simple "I'm really really sorry and want to marry you" does not adequately deal with serious domestic violence! Pa dobro ne bih rekao da se ne prica, mozda pre ne ocukujemo tako nesto u knjizi naucne fantastike, ali je upravo to jedan od razloga zasto je ovaj zanr toliko superioran barem kada se radi o polaznoj tacki za pisanje romana. Robinette Stetley Broadhead is a young food shale miner who wins a lottery, giving him enough money to purchase a one-way ticket to Gateway.Other characters presented in the book are also done well; from the other prospectors on Gateway to Broadhead's computerized therapist on Earth. Wer sich für "Gateway" jedoch Zeit nimmt, merkt, dass genau diese Strategie das Spannungsmoment des existenzialistisch-tragischen Glücksrittertums auf die Spitze treibt, denn das Ende des Roman ist, slopp gesagt, wirklich "voll krass" und die authentisch wirkenden Therapiestunden zeigen, wie Traumaaufarbeitung in Echtzeit funktioniert: voller Widerstände und Wut; Verdrängung, Aufbrüche, Erkenntnisse und Ausweichmanöver wechseln sich sprunghaft ab, und die Art des Traumas, das erst gegen Ende des Romans deutlich wird, ist ein zutiefst menschliches, ethisches, das sich in dieser Art quer durch die Literatur der Welt zieht: Unschuld, Schuld und Sühne zwischen Leben und Tod.