Gateway Author:Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl is an acknowledged master of science fiction and GATEWAY is without a doubt one of his greatest novels. In its earliest reviews it has been described as an "irresistable bravura display.... utterly splendid invention... major Pohl" and "a fresh and suspenseful story. — In GATEWAY Pohl weaves greed and danger, adventure and sex into... more » an unforgettable tapestry of the future. The Heechee gateway (the artifact of a long dead and vastly superior civilization) had been abandoned thousands of years before man found the artifical asteroid in the vicinity of Venus. Left behind are almost a thousand Heechee starships, programmed for faster than light travel to distant parts of the universe. But the traveller can never know his destination. A successful journey can mean immense wealth, but all too often the only reward is death.« less