[Pohl, Frederik] Gateway (back)

Rich    Man, Dead Man

Those were the choices

Gateway offered—the same for women. too. of course. Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe..

and on reaches of unimaginable horror The humans who rocie the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldnt know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses.

When Bob Broadhead came out to Gateway, he thought his problem was simple— wait till the mission felt right. then ship out.

But watching retumed prospectors scraped from the insides of tneir ships, falling in love. feeling his nerve dwindle— all these things changed him.

Then. years later Robinette Broadhead. a three-mission veteran. famousand permanently rich has to face just what happened to him and what he is.in a joumey into himself as periious as and even morę horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void he finally drove himself to take!

THEHEECHEESAGA Book One Gateway Book Two Beyond The Blue Event Horizon Book Three Heechee Rendezvous Book Four The Annals of the Heechee