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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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* #41 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.
* ‘Frederik Pohl, one of the old pros of the genre, never takes unnecessary risks. For him, science fiction is a form of play – an excusable indulgence since he plays it so much better than most people.’ The New York Times Book Review
* 'The most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced' -- Kingsley Amis
* ‘One of Frederik Pohl's best novels – and my personal favourite. Complex people in tough situations on a marvelous and gritty world – who could ask for more from any novel?’ Greg Bear
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