By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I read the book a few weeks ago and his name has been lost to the mists of time and sleep deprivation, but I remember one thing: what a douchebag. Easily the best Pohl book I've read which has aged really well, having multi-facetted gay, non-white and female characters, and a very inclusive (=realistic) approach to how homosexuality would be perceived in the future.

Die Story: Man werfe "Lockruf des Goldes" von Jack London und "Picknick am Wegesrand" von den Strugatzkis in einen Mixer, würze das Ganze mit ein paar lustigen Raumschiffen der DEFA-Zeit, schmecke ab mit dem Gaumen einer Jules Vernes Sternensehnsucht und, voilà, man erhält diesen frischen, zeitlos interessanten Gateway-Roman! It's one of the rare Hugo/Nebula double winners (not to mention the Locus and Campbell awards, which pretty much covers all of them)! Instead when we are on Gateway, Rob just mills around being a self centered arsehole and worrying that he will soon run out of money.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. I think about Shicky, so kind, so mothering; and Francy Hereira holding me in his arms, letting me bawl, even though I'd killed his cousin.

The element of high risk, all or nothing stakes while being charged extravagant daily fees ramped up the urgency to start the dangerous prospecting.was published in 1976 but the themes seem pretty contemporary some 40 years later: environmental destruction, economic inequality, social alienation, childlessness. Odnosno sto bi rekao moj prijatelj Dusan:"O nekim stvarima se ne prica, a Orson Skot Kard to uporno cini". Others here on GoodReads have been critical saying they didn't like Broadhead or they wanted to slap him. Between bouts of chain smoking, we are treated to Rob’s terrible personal inner thoughts throughout the book.

Except he was always kind of a jerk, and while his reason for sliding further down into a jerky abyss is ultimately a pretty good one, he also did plenty of stuff earlier in the timeline to evaporate every drop of my sympathy. Gracias a ellos conoceremos Pórtico, un asteroide reconvertido en un puerto interestelar explotado por una Corporación multimillonaria. It is by one of the stalwarts of geek writing, the man who, as an editor, made sure Dhalgren was published, fergoshsakes! It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.A huge multinational corporation pays intrepid "prospectors" to get aboard these ships, go to a destination, and then come back with any new discoveries. But later on, he comes on less kindly when Rob is asked by his love interest Klara "They're not bad guys. Oh yes, but no one could figure out how to work them except to be able to switch them on and off, and they only went to one pre-programmed destination (and back) and you never knew where you were going to end up, so you might come back dead, or you might come back rich, an intriguing idea. This novel offers an idea of a psychological/mental problem that haven't happened to human in real-life yet. What makes the book remarkable is that it is an exploration of the human psyche rather than the sci-fi environment.