About the Book
Nebula Award 1977, Hugo Award 1978, Locus Award 1978.
RICH MAN, DEAD MAN
Those were the choices Gateway offered - the same for women, too, of
course. Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on
reaches of unimaginable horror.
The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldn't know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses.
When Bob Broadhead came out to Gateway, he thought his problem was
simple - wait till the mission felt right, then ship out. But watching
returned prospectors scraped from the insides of their ships, falling in love, feeling his nerve dwindle - all these things changed him.
Then, years later, Robinette Broadhead, a three-mission veteran, famous
and permanently rich, has to face just what happened to him and what he
is... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying
than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void he finally drove
himself to take!
