Gateway

The Best of the SF Masterworks

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Beschreibung

<p>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.<br><br> 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.<br><br><i>Winner of the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards, </i>Gateway<i> begins Pohl's space operatic Heechee saga. He was hugely influential in SF as an author but also an agent and editor, and his career spanned decades.</i><br><br>'A masterpiece of the genre' - <i>Tordotcom</i><br>'<i>Gateway</i> deserves its reputation as a classic' - Gareth L. Powell<br>'One of the best Hugo winners I have read' - <i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399607803

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 127 x 24 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Orion Publishing Group