The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

by Frederik Pohl

The Heechee Saga: Story Order (6), The Heechee Saga (5)

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Tells of the autonavigating spacecraft that follows the trail of the elusive Heechee.

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Very uneven collection of stories set in the HeeChee/Gateway universe. Some quite good, some not so much. But a easy, escapist mostly fun read.
More a collection of short stories than a coherent novel. The real meat of the book is 100+ pages of "The Merchants of Venus". The rest of the "chapters" are hit and miss. I picked it up at a used bookstore and had no idea that it was background material for a whole Heechee series. I'll definitely pick up at least one more book about the Heechee.
A collection of material not here-to-fore published in the Gateway Canon. Read for completeness, and not very inspiring.
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Hace quinientos mil años o así unos nuevos vecinos se instalaron en las cercanías del sistema solar terrestre. Deseaban agradar a toda costa, en el caso de que lograran encontrar a alguien a quien agradar. De modo que un día se dejaron caer por el tercer planeta del sistema, el que actualmente conocemos como la Tierra, para ver si había alguien en casa. No escogieron el momento más oportuno para hacer una visita. Bueno, en la Tierra había vida por doquier, de eso no cabe duda. El planeta rebosaba de vida. Lo que no encontraron en ninguna parte fue inteligencia. Aún no había hecho su aparición, sencillamente.
Az Átjáró-sorozat 5. része nem regény ( mint az előző 4 rész volt ), hanem novellagyűjtemény. Vélhetően a sorozathoz tartozó Vénusz kalmárai kisregényt ( ami eredetileg 1972-ben jelent meg, vagyis több évvel az Átjáró előtt ) szerették volna újra kiadni, ezért Pohl 1990-ben írt még 9 novellát (vagy talált a fiókjában?), hogy ne legyen a könyv túl vékony.

A novellák a fontosabb felfedezőutak történetét mesélik el, könnyen emészthetőek, de nem sokkal bővítik az előző négy kötetben megismert világot. Szépen időrendben előre haladva megismerjük a sorozat elejének a történetét, mintha egy összefoglaló lenne azoknak, akik nem olvasták az eredeti regényeket.
Dec 30, 2010Hungarian

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Frederik Pohl was born in New York City on November 26, 1919. More interested in writing than in school, he dropped out of high school in his senior year and took a job with a publishing company. After serving as a public relations officer in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, he returned to publishing as copywriter for Popular Science, a show more literary agent for several sci-fi writers, and the editor for the magazines Galaxy and If from 1959 until 1969, with If winning three successive Hugo awards. His first published work, a poem entitled Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna, was printed in Amazing Stories magazine in 1937 under the pen name Elton Andrews. His first science fiction novels were published in the mid 1960's, some written in collaboration with other writers, others created alone. During his lifetime, he won over 16 major awards for his writing (much of which was published pseudonymously) including six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. His works include Gateway, which won the Campbell Memorial, Hugo, Locus SF, and Nebula Awards, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and Jem, which won the National Book Award in 1979. He also embraced blogging in his later years, using his online journal as an ongoing sequel to his autobiography, The Way the Future Was. He died on September 2, 2013 at the age 93. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee
Original title
The Gateway Trip
Original publication date
1990

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Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3566 .O36 .G38Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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