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Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)Gateway by Frederik Pohl
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

As usual, I won't get into the storyline and plot much and I'm really interested in the technology more than anything else. I can say that some of the storylines remind me of the novel Eon. As with many such a story, go technology used is technology borrowed from an alien race. Well maybe using the word alien is not politically correct anymore let's say an advanced species that seem like it disappeared.

I always wonder about stories where we run into advanced Technologies and yet The Originators of the technology cannot be found or have disappeared. The Fermi Paradox really comes to mind. You have a civilization that is gone but the tech that remains is fully functional and it's not affected by entropy in the least. I guess that was the thought of the day when he wrote the book in 1977.

Many other stories, one may see in sci-fi TV series touch this subject, for example, Stargate and it's sequels. You have Star Trek where there's a race known as Preservers. You have marvel version of Asgardians where the technology is so advanced that Asgardians look like Gods to a few of us humans. The same applies to the Rama series from Arthur C Clarke.

He also touches some social issues as well that by today's standards are pretty much normal. I won't get into those. The computer or as we call them today -AI- that behaves as a psychologist reminds me of a short film by George Lucas I think it was called THX 1138 more people will get into certain Booth like a telephone booth and talk to machines, of course, these machines or programs are not as smart the AI in Gateway. But you get a general idea I hope.

Anyway, what is your opinion on the novel Gateway? I am now reading one of the sequel called Blue Horizon.


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