{"id":25753,"date":"2022-03-06T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25753"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:23:04","slug":"gateway-by-frederik-pohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/03\/06\/gateway-by-frederik-pohl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Gateway by Frederik Pohl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1512,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/9c423b98-731c-4a11-9c23-7c25c9bcdfa3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230530112111\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/9c423b98-731c-4a11-9c23-7c25c9bcdfa3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 19:35:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:30:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:30:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>15\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/9c423b98-731c-4a11-9c23-7c25c9bcdfa3\" title=\"StoryGraph: Gateway\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1978 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>The main character\u2019s something of an ass (admittedly, this is part of the story, so at least he\u2019s not an ass for no reason), but the general conceit and worldbuilding is fascinating. Humanity has found the remnants of an alien race, including a fleet of FTL ships\u2026but nobody really knows how to work them. Take one out and you might come back with treasures worth millions, you might come back with nothing, you might come back dead, you might not come back at all\u2026and the odds aren\u2019t in your favor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25752\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Gateway\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/F5A6980B-E73E-4767-8E1C-54D8219A7985-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main character\u2019s something of an ass, but the general conceit and worldbuilding is fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4118,2012,3313],"class_list":["post-25753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-frederik-pohl","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}