Gateway

Frederik Paul is an outstanding master of science fiction whose career spans six decades.

“Gates” is the first book in the cult “Heechee” cycle, a winner of the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards.

For readers of Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, and Vernor Vinge.

The near future.

On one of the asteroids, an abandoned base is accidentally discovered with ships of alien origin and a device for teleporting to every corner of the universe.

Thanks to journalists, the base is immediately called the Gates. And it truly is a set of gates—opening a path to the stars for humanity. But at the same time it is a deadly temptation: the chance of not returning from a jump into the unknown is huge. Still, among 25 billion people on Earth living in cramped conditions and forced to work to exhaustion, there will be plenty of desperate minds who have nothing left to lose! The Gates are a miracle, a trap, a test: can a person step beyond, come to know themselves? The Gates are a hard road to knowledge and the finest diagnosis of humanity…