Gateway (novel), the Glossary

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1. 46 relations: Algol (fanzine), Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Artificial intelligence, Asimov's Science Fiction, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Black hole, Boris Vallejo, Brazil, David Eick, Foundation (journal), Frederik Pohl, Galaxy Science Fiction, Galileo (magazine), Gateway (video game), Gravitational time dilation, Heechee Saga, Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Internet Archive, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Josh Pate, Locus (magazine), Locus Award, Locus Award for Best Novel, Metagaming Concepts, Nebula Award, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Planetary habitability, Poverty, Psychoanalysis, Repression (psychoanalysis), Reverse engineering, Richard E. Geis, Science fiction, Skybound Entertainment, Soviet Union, St. Martin's Press, Survivor guilt, Syfy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Space Gamer, Trial and error, United States, Variety (magazine), Vector (journal), Vincent Di Fate.

2. 1977 science fiction novels
3. Fiction about asteroids
4. Fiction about black holes
5. Fiction about xenoarchaeology
6. John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel-winning works
7. Novels by Frederik Pohl

Algol (fanzine)

Algol: The Magazine About Science Fiction was published from 1963 to 1984 by Andrew Porter.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Asimov's Science Fiction

Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press.

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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl, a sequel to his 1977 novel Gateway and the second book in the Heechee series. Gateway (novel) and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon are fiction about black holes, novels about artificial intelligence and novels by Frederik Pohl.

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Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.

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Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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David Eick

David Eick (born 1968) is an American writer and producer, best known as the executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, for which he also wrote several episodes.

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Foundation (journal)

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary journal established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews about science fiction.

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Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.

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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980.

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Galileo (magazine)

Galileo Magazine of Science & Fiction was an American science and science fiction magazine published out of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Gateway (video game)

Frederik Pohl's Gateway is a 1992 interactive fiction video game released by Legend Entertainment, and written by Glen Dahlgren and Mike Verdu.

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Gravitational time dilation

Gravitational time dilation is a form of time dilation, an actual difference of elapsed time between two events, as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating mass.

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Heechee Saga

The Heechee Saga, also known as the Gateway series, is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Frederik Pohl.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. Gateway (novel) and Hugo Award for Best Novel are Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, was an annual award presented to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year. Gateway (novel) and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel are John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel-winning works.

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Josh Pate

Joshua Warren Pate (born January 15, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award for Best Novel

Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novel, one of several discontinued Locus Awards, awarded by Locus magazine.

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Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.

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Planetary habitability

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain environments hospitable to life.

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Poverty

Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.

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Psychoanalysis

PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.

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Repression (psychoanalysis)

Repression is a key concept of psychoanalysis, where it is understood as a defense mechanism that "ensures that what is unacceptable to the conscious mind, and would if recalled arouse anxiety, is prevented from entering into it." According to psychoanalytic theory, repression plays a major role in many mental illnesses, and in the psyche of the average person.

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Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.

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Richard E. Geis

Richard E. Geis (July 19, 1927 – February 4, 2013) was an American science fiction fan and writer, and erotica writer, from Portland, Oregon, who won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977 (tied with Susan Wood), 1978, 1982 and 1983; and whose science fiction fanzine Science Fiction Review won the 1969, 1970, 1977 and 1979 Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Skybound Entertainment

Skybound Entertainment is an American multiplatform entertainment company founded by Robert Kirkman and David Alpert.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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St. Martin's Press

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Survivor guilt

Survivor guilt or survivor's guilt (but also survivor syndrome, survivor's syndrome, survivor disorder and survivor's disorder) happens when individuals feel guilty after they survive a near death or traumatic event when their loved ones perished.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The Space Gamer

The Space Gamer was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games.

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Trial and error

Trial and error is a fundamental method of problem-solving characterized by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the practicer stops trying.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vector (journal)

Vector is the critical journal (sometimes called a fanzine) of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), established in 1958.

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Vincent Di Fate

Vincent Di Fate (born November 21, 1945) is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art (hardware art) illustration.

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See also

1977 science fiction novels

• A Dream of Wessex
• A Scanner Darkly
• Colossus and the Crab
• Coma (novel)
• Danny Dunn and the Universal Glue
• Dragonsinger
• Dying of the Light (Martin novel)
• Eumeswil
• Gateway (novel)
• High Couch of Silistra
• Humans as Gods
• Hunter of Worlds
• If the Stars are Gods
• In the Ocean of Night
• Involution Ocean
• Krozair of Kregen
• Logan's World
• Lucifer's Hammer
• Michaelmas (novel)
• Midnight at the Well of Souls
• Mind of My Mind
• Moonstar Odyssey
• Orphan Star
• Planet of Judgment
• Supermind (novel)
• The Adolescence of P-1
• The Caves of Drach
• The City Outside the World
• The Cold Cash War
• The Condition of Muzak
• The Dark Design
• The Dark Tower (Lewis novel)
• The Dosadi Experiment
• The End of the Matter
• The Golden Sword (novel)
• The Grand Wheel
• The Hostage of Zir
• The Incandescent Ones
• The Jupiter Theft
• The Ophiuchi Hotline
• The Passion of New Eve
• The Plague Dogs (novel)
• The Price of the Phoenix
• The Soul of Anna Klane
• Until the Celebration
• We Who Are About To...
• Ylana of Callisto

Fiction about asteroids

• Allegiance (video game)
• Asteroids (video game)
• Asteroids in fiction
• Astro Farm
• Cannibal Reign
• Gateway (novel)
• Impact events in fiction
• Layla (video game)
• Magic Fly (video game)
• River of Gods
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) season 4
• The Dynamics of an Asteroid
• The Little Prince
• The Lonely
• The Terrornauts

Fiction about black holes

• A Flight to Remember
• A Pail of Air
• Barna Hedenhös uppfinner julen
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
• Black Hole (The Ren & Stimpy Show)
• Black holes in fiction
• Blackhole (video game)
• Dark (TV series)
• Earth (Brin novel)
• Fiasco (novel)
• Gateway (novel)
• He Fell into a Dark Hole
• Icarus at the Edge of Time
• Inconstant Star
• Marrow (novel)
• Outer Wilds
• Star Trek (2009 film)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) season 10
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) season 8
• The Borderland of Sol
• The Collapsium
• The Day After Tomorrow (TV special)
• The Doctor Falls
• The Horns of Nimon
• The Impossible Planet
• The Planck Dive
• The Satan Pit
• The Three Doctors (Doctor Who)
• Time Crash
• Treasure Planet
• Treasure Planet (1982 film)
• Treehouse of Horror VI
• Treehouse of Horror XXIII
• World Enough and Time (Doctor Who)

Fiction about xenoarchaeology

• Beyond the Farthest Star (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
• Broken Angels (novel)
• Doctor Aphra
• Foundation and Earth
• Gateway (novel)
• Giants (series)
• Inseminoid
• Jean-Luc Picard
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Revelation Space
• Ringworld
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Stellaris (video game)
• Strata (novel)
• The Engines of God
• The Saga of Seven Suns
• The Voyage of the Space Beagle
• What Are Little Girls Made Of?

John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel-winning works

• A Deepness in the Sky
• A Door into Ocean
• Beyond Apollo
• Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
• Forever Peace
• Gateway (novel)
• Gloriana (novel)
• Islands in the Net
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
• Lincoln's Dreams
• Malevil
• Market Forces
• On Wings of Song (novel)
• Permutation City
• Radiomen
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Riddley Walker
• The Alteration
• The Child Garden
• The Chronoliths
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
• The Islanders (Priest novel)
• The Postman
• The Time Ships
• Timescape

Novels by Frederik Pohl

• A Plague of Pythons
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
• Chernobyl (novel)
• Drunkard's Walk (novel)
• Gateway (novel)
• Gladiator-At-Law
• Heechee Rendezvous
• Homegoing (Pohl novel)
• Man Plus
• Mars Plus
• Murasaki (novel)
• Narabedla Ltd.
• Rogue Star (novel)
• Search the Sky
• Slave Ship (Pohl novel)
• Starburst (novel)
• Starchild (novel)
• Starchild Trilogy
• Stopping at Slowyear
• Syzygy (novel)
• The Age of the Pussyfoot
• The Annals of the Heechee
• The Boy Who Would Live Forever
• The Coming of the Quantum Cats
• The Cool War
• The Far Shore of Time
• The Gateway Trip
• The Last Theorem
• The Merchants' War (Pohl novel)
• The Other End of Time
• The Reefs of Space
• The Siege of Eternity
• The Space Merchants
• The World at the End of Time
• The Years of the City
• Undersea Trilogy
• Wall Around a Star
• Wolfbane (novel)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)

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