Gateway
Author: Frederik Pohl
ISBN: 9780575094239
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 May 2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Wealth or Death. Those were the choices Gateway offered.Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee.Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable.It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.
ISBN: 9780575094239
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 May 2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Wealth or Death. Those were the choices Gateway offered.Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee.Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable.It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.
