Gateway Av Frederik Pohl

<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><