RIP Frederik Pohl

PearOfAnguish 3 Sep 2013 13:23:32 7,573 posts
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Sad news, Frederik Pohl has passed. He was one of the few remaining Golden Age authors. Wrote one of the very best SF novels ever: Gateway.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/02/science_fiction_titan_frederik_pohl_dies_aged_93/

CrispyLog 3 Sep 2013 14:40:10 132 posts
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Gateway is still one of the best novels I've read. It's what sci-fi is about, not lasers and alien sex which non-readers think it is but a thought experiment on how humans would cope in a situation. The sacrifices, the guilt, the risks, the big gamble, love and the loneliness all tied together in a brilliant story. Still though, the man had a 75 year career in it! What a man and what a loss!

Tonka 4 Oct 2013 12:42:51 31,979 posts
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Gateway? Is that the starter of the Heeche saga?
If so I love it. For more in the same vein try William Gibsons short story Hinterlands. (Which must be a homage)

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