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Gateway

(1977)
(The first book in the Heechee series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel
1978 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
1978 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel

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. 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.


Genre: Science Fiction

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