A review by hakimbriki
Gateway by Frederik Pohl

2.0

Gateway won three major awards... I can see the appeal. It's an interesting take on the "alien artifact" plot device. It's thematically courageous and quite well written. It's just so damn boring. Barely anything interesting happens... until the very end, this felt like a drone metal concert. Pohl sustained the same chord, though distorted and beautiful, for too long. I kept waiting for him to pick up the pace, but by the time he did, I looked like this: