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Gateway (Sf Masterworks 09)

By Frederik Pohl

Book information

Publisher
Millennium Paperbacks
Year
1999
ISBN
1857988183, 9781857988185
Open Library ID
OL9002743M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
275 kB (281874 bytes)
Pages
320\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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.

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