THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST
The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system....
By the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of "Gateway", this novel centres around Sandy Washington, a young man who has been raised on a spaceship by aliens. The Hakh'li have done everything to give Sandy an earth-type boyhood. Now they are...
He was a master teacher-respected, successful, his life well rewarded in past accomplishments and rich in the promise of achievements to come.
And yet he was fighting a bitter battle with a savage, bewildering driveto self-destruction.
But...
They were the heirs of space-flight: They planned to be the first humans to land on Alpha Centauri, but the original Hartnett expedition had been lost and they had to find it first. They followed the signals and found that they led to what looked...
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....