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# Gateway

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Very Entertaining Read With One very Annoying Flaw
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014*

Gateway is a very entertaining book that alternates between the main character's description of his life working as a "prospector" a group of people tasked with piloting alien ships that they are not sure how to control to potentially new technology and fabulous wealth or into a certain death.  This storyline is alternated with on in which the author is going to counseling sessions to try to work out the problems of his last mission.  The two stories intertwine in a way that revels the same story but from different perspectives.  There also interspersed throughout the book little informative tidbits in the form of classified ads and interviews with other characters giving the reader a word illustration of what is going on in the larger world of Gateway.  I thought there were an especially good idea.  Overall I really liked this book and was more than willing to give it a 5 stars.  But then I got to the last chapters.I have often heard other authors say that they do not consider their books sci fi when they obviously are.  And I have always wondered why that is.  I would think that one would love to have their book classified as this because it has a guaranteed fan base.  But after reading Gateway and a few others I am beginning to see why.  I have read several of the Hugo and Nebula award winning books and one thing that has bothered me about they is that many of these books that have been judged to be the best of the genera for that year by both readers (Hugo) and writers (Nebula) are written at about the emotional level of a 16 year old boy from the 1960. To give an example, there are several chapters in the story where the main character has encounters with his main love interest and they have quirky relationship that really doesn't seem to get developed that much except for the fact that she keeps referring to horoscopes and he keeps smoking and making witty retorts between endless bouts of sex.  In one chapter he confronts his girlfriend after finding out that she has slept with another man (that he also has romantic feeling for) they end up getting into a fight and he severely beats her actually picking her up off the ground to punch her and knock a tooth out.  Later in the book they are reunited and she makes know reference to the vicious attack and professes that she still loves him! WTF!!!!! The character even mentions that he can see the gap in her smile when the aforementioned tooth was knocked out!  To me this is the most implausible part of the entire story.  1.) It implies that she is to blame for what happened and she acknowledges that. 2.) It also suggests that he is just so irresistible that despite he viciously beat a women she will still come back to him and let bygones be bygones making some offhand comment about people with his sign being volatile. This would maybe have made sense to me when I was 14 if I had read it but I am not and neither was the author when he wrote it.  And I think that here is why you have authors that write a variety of books not wanting the sci fi label applied to their work.  Even the acknowledged best in the genre often has terrible character development and just is not written with a mature non-male audience in mind.  I am beginning to get the impression that labeling a book as sci fi indicates that it is sci fi written in a immature pulpy manner as which I find really sad since many stories have some really good ideas that are just really poorly executed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hugo Award winner
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2022*

Great book reread it in the last week. For those who don’t know Gateway is a relic of the Heechee an ancient alien race that has vanished. They have left ships behind that no one knows where they go. It is either death nothing or jackpot. Robinette Broadhead is a player and he eventually hits the Jackpot. But he is tormented by those who have been left behind. And he seeks psychiatric help a computer program named Ziggy

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    One of the Very Best (To Me)
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2018*

I love Gateway. I've read this and the sequels several times, over the decades. But if you check out the reviews, you'll see a spectrum of taste, ranging from adulation to contempt. Here's a brief sample of the science fiction works that I like. If you like them too, then you'll probably enjoy Gateway (a lot).Asimov's Foundation Series95%+ of Heinlein's work (I think I've read them all)Clarke (Fountains of Paradise, Rendezvous with Rama)The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry HarrisonRay Bradbury (451 for example)Charles Sheffield's Cold as Ice seriesAldous Huxley (BNW, Chrome Yellow, Ape and Essence)I think that Gateway fits into this genre very well, but closer to the "far out" range, like Niven's Rig World. Still, he handles the fantastic very well and makes it believable, as in "Yeah, that could happen."Now the bad news. The sequels are very good and they introduce interesting new situations and characters. But in my opinion (you may think otherwise) they are 4-star. This first book in the series is the best. To me, it's well worth reading the series but Gateway is a stand-alone masterpiece, like Stranger in a Strange Land, and Fahrenheit 451. If you like shootouts with ray-guns, this is not your book.

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