Portico

Paperback, 365 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Ediciones B.

ISBN:
978-84-666-2298-1
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OCLC Number:
69674225

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4 stars (66 reviews)

Heechee Saga

20 editions

reviewed Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee Saga, #1)

Product of it's time...

2 stars

Ok... so. I like the world itself, I like the story with the aliens, the setting with the you-dont-know-where-you-go-spaceships and so on. But the main character is a white cis-hetero asshole who only has sex on his mind. Later in the book, homosexual desire is justified by the fact that mum's thermometer in her son's anus was the only physical sign of love (so obv. that makes you want d*** in there aswell). There are also discussions about whether he, as a heterosexual man, can stand to be on a spaceship with 3 homosexual men. If a person is black this is always explicitly mentioned, not so with non-black people. Yes the book was published in 1977 but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it if you are concerned with equality, LGBTQIA+ and anti-racism. It can be off-putting.

reviewed Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee Saga, #1)

Review of 'Gateway (Heechee Saga)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Pohl won a Hugo and a Nebula for Gateway, deservedly so.

Frederik Pohl was, of course, one of the Golden Age writers of SF. But Gateway showed that he was hardly stuck in the 1950s. It was very innovative for its time. The general tone is quite modern. Much of the book is about the therapy of Robinette Broadhead, an ex-astronaut with severe post-traumatic stress disorder. The PTSD is understandable, since his spaceflights were taken in several alien spacecraft that no one knew how to operate; operating out of an abandoned alien base in the solar system, the "prospectors" of Gateway faced an extremely high casualty rate.

Robinette Broadhead is a complex character; unpleasant in some ways, and often not admirable. But since the story is told from his point of view, in first person, it's clear that we're not getting an objective picture of himself or, probably, his …

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  • American Science Fiction And Fantasy
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  • Spanish: Adult Fiction
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