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by Frederik Pohl

ISBN: 0765349353
ISBN13: 978-0765349354
Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 2005)
Category: Science Fiction
Subategory: Science Fiction

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Books by Frederik Pohl. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon. The Annals of the Heechee. The Boy Who Would Live Forever. The Eschaton Sequence.

Books by Frederik Pohl. The Other End of Time. The Siege of Eternity. The Far Shore of Time. The Age of the Pussyfoot.

Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever .

Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a memorable journey into the unknown. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the. A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure. Stan and Estrella settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans and Heechee in the core from destruction by a crazed madman. Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, a man full of loathing for the Heechee, will stop at nothing to destroy the Heechee and their human friends.

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The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl. It was published in 2004 by Tor. It is about intrigues involving one of Pohl's recurring creations, the Heechee universe. The Heechee are a fictional alien race which developed advanced technologies, including interstellar space travel, but then disappeared.

Pohl returns to his Gateway Universe and his most famous creation, the Heechee It has been 14 years since The Gateway Trip, the last previous novel of the Heechee, so bear in mind that readers may wish to refresh their memories with Gateway (1977).

Pohl returns to his Gateway Universe and his most famous creation, the Heechee. A couple of youngsters with no future on earth make it to the galactic core where live the Heechee, both the quick and the dead in body, the latter of whose active minds are stored electronically. Many humans of both kinds also live there. It has been 14 years since The Gateway Trip, the last previous novel of the Heechee, so bear in mind that readers may wish to refresh their memories with Gateway (1977), Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980), Heechee Rendezvous (1984), and Annals of the Heechee (1987), too, to ensure full enjoyment of this book.

Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. Gateway was a bestseller and won science fiction's triple crown: the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial awards for best novel. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Pohl has completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe. The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Gateway and will delight new readers as well.

book by Frederik Pohl. As aliens go, Frederik Pohl's enigmatic and often elusive Heechee -- created more than a quarter-century ago to propel his popular Gateway series -- have proven difficult to fathom.

Authors: Frederik Pohl. I was generated merely to be one among the ten-to-the-tenth computer intelligences that the human persons and the Heechee created to do odd jobs for them, when those two races built the Wheel some centuries ago. Which Wheel was constructed for the purpose of keeping track of that extragalactic nest of nonmaterial entities which are collectively known as the Assassins, the Foe or, more recently, the Kugelblitz. I don’t need to say any more about them now, as I will say enough later o. Why, then, am I called Marc Antony?

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A Triumphant New Gateway AdventureTwenty-five years after the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestseller Gateway, Frederik Pohl returns with a new Gateway novel. Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a memorable journey into the unknown.Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the Gateway asteroid looking for adventure, and discover each other during a flight in one of the ships the alien Heechee left behind when they explored our Solar System. Stan and Estrella settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans and Heechee in the core from destruction by a crazed madman.Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, a man full of loathing for the Heechee, will stop at nothing to destroy the Heechee and their human friends. But Stan and Estrella, with the help of a fabulously wealthy philanthropist and the unique machine mind Marc Antony, are determined to thwart Wan's terrible plan. At stake is nothing less than the fate of all life in the galaxy.

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Danskyleyn

Fred Pohl returns to "Gateway" with perhaps the series' most lightweight entry to date. We follow two young would-be explorers who have the misfortune to be out on a failed prospecting trip when Robinette Broadhead discovers how to read/set the Heechee spaceship controls. The two explorers, a young woman and a younger man, end up signing up for a trip to the core. Along the way they become lovers (surprise!), and most of the book deals with their effort to fit in with the Heechee at the core. We also find out that the lovers spend a lot of time in the sack.

The supporting characters are not terribly well-fleshed out. I guess that's appropriate given that they are either Heechee (very little flesh) or stored/machine intelligence. Pohl must really be a gourmet, as one (machine) character is a cook who goes into excruciating detail - over and over - about the meals it prepares. Said cook also turns into an intelligence officer along the way as a plot to kill millions of Heechee dominates the last third of the book.

You'll see a lot of old favorites here. The Kugel (aka the Foe) put in an appearance, as do Gelle-Klara Moynlin, Sigfrid Von Shrink, the Gateway Corp, the Old Ones, and a host of familar Heechee. Rob Broadhead, while frequently mentioned, does not put in an appearance - in person or otherwise.

If you've read the series, you'll get warm fuzzies from visiting our old friends again, but "...Forever" does not stand on its own. Pohl assumes you've read several other novels in the series; you'll be lost if you haven't.

Yar

Didn't come up to the level of previous books in the series, but was nice to be able to stay in touch with some favorite characters and meet new ones.

MEGA FREEDY

Not up to the first five books though, a little too self-consciously joyous with the perils quickly disposed of. Still, highly recommended

Folsa

This is a superb ending for the Heechee saga. Intricate plot involving all the major characters with great resolution to the remaining issues.

Onoxyleili

This book is readable, but it's no "Gateway". Mr. Pohl gets too cute a bit often. Buy this book "used" if at all possible. On the other hand, his note at the end is fairly amusing when you consider the changes in our understanding of black holes since he wrote "Gateway".

Huston

Baeing a avid Fred Pohl reader and being throughly entertained by the earlier Gateway novels I expected this to be a strong finish to the series. Instead what we have is a weak rambling story that bears little or no resemblence to the source. It left me wondering "Mr. Pohl what happened?

Jark

The final book in The Gateway series. As good as the first.

it"s a real part of the gateway saga,not a sequel :)..you will meet everything and everybody you already knew, but the story is original and captivating.