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Frederik Pohl: Gateway, 1977.
"There is something very frightening about knowing that there is nothing between you and instant, ugly death except a thin skin of metal made by some peculiar strangers half a million years ago."
In the 60s Pohl was the editor of the Galaxy Sience Fiction magazine and from 1937 to 2011 he had his own work published. Gateway is his highest rated novel, winning the John W. Campbell, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for Best Novel. The book has a similar premise to the Strugatskies superior Roadside Picnic (published in the USSR in 1972, translated to English in 1977), with unknowable alien leftovers that can bring either fortune or disaster. A rather straight forward read with few surprises, this takes a place in the lower half of my SF read so far.
"There is something very frightening about knowing that there is nothing between you and instant, ugly death except a thin skin of metal made by some peculiar strangers half a million years ago."
In the 60s Pohl was the editor of the Galaxy Sience Fiction magazine and from 1937 to 2011 he had his own work published. Gateway is his highest rated novel, winning the John W. Campbell, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for Best Novel. The book has a similar premise to the Strugatskies superior Roadside Picnic (published in the USSR in 1972, translated to English in 1977), with unknowable alien leftovers that can bring either fortune or disaster. A rather straight forward read with few surprises, this takes a place in the lower half of my SF read so far.