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He decides to sacrifice himself and closes the hatch.
From my reading of the novel, my first impression was that the guy tried to escape before the others did, thus stranding them and having the subsequent 'survivor guilt'. I haven't read the other sequels yet, but maybe that sentence should be changed to a mere statement of the facts (he closed the hatch, he aimed to push some sort of release control, the others yelled to him not to do it (not to do what?)), to accept wider interpretations. :-) He certainly didn't seem the sacrificing kind up to that point. Cheers Raystorm 00:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Pohl deliberately leaves this ambiguous. When the AI asks Robin whether he intended to desert the others he shouts "Yes. No. I don't know." It has been established before this (when he beat Klara and when he damaged the Heechee ship) that Robin has difficulty controlling his emotions in a crisis. The implication is that he wanted to sacrifice himself, but his unconscious mind performed the actions necessary to get away. CharlesTheBold 21:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot 06:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I have added a warning that the plot section reveals the ending of the book. I have read some of the discussions regarding "spoiler warnings" and after reading some of the arguments from both sides I feel that in this instance the warning is justified. The twist at the end is an important factor for the enjoyment of the book and people who come to the Wikipedia page to have a look at the plot do not necessarily expect that the ending will be revealed to them. Spiros Bousbouras ( talk) 03:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I would find it very helpful to provide some information on whether or not you need to read the whole series to enjoy this book or whether "Gateway" can stand on its own. Normen Behr ( talk) 15:10, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I really don't like the plot-report style of this article. I think we should be able to let people know what the story is about without extensively detailing the plot and storyline. Then people can have the fun of discovering all those details on their own. It often is tempting to spoil something, but I think it's really better not to.
I have not worked on this article at all, and so I'm not going to go in and start changing things around. I know there's got to be people who loved the book as much as I did who want to make this article show people that if they miss reading this book, they're really missing out. -- Neptunerover ( talk) 09:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Evidently the novel was covered by Kirkus Reviews in 1977. The review seems to be in the online archive but inaccessible by some mistake in assignment of eddresses. Search Kirkus Reviews: 'gateway' returns at least four hits for the simple title Gateway (as well as The Gateway, Gateway to Freedom, and so on). But the review of Sharon Shinn's Gateway is served for both of these two URL, which I have copy-pasted from the search report.
(I tried '1', '4', and '5' as the final numeral because other eddresses --which incorporate names of other writers-- include "gateway-" without any numeral and with '2' or '3'.)
The search report does include for Pohl's Gateway the lead sentence: "Lately Pohl has been gearing his future worlds and technologies less to fate-of-civilization extrapolation than to the imaginative shaping of inner events."
-- P64 ( talk) 00:33, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
The Heechee appear to resemble the Haashchʼéé in the Navajo creation story, Diné Bahaneʼ. These gods or deities include Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí, deity of the hunt; Haashchʼééłtiʼí, the Talking God, god of the dawn and the east; and Hashchʼéoghan, the House-God, god of evening and the west. As the Heechee and the Haashchʼéé are both supposed to be races of a long past era, there certainly seems to be a connection. Just sayin'.
And there really should be a page for the entire Gateway series. Right now the only list appears on the Heechee page, and they are two distinct concepts, a race and a series of books. A year or two ago I tried to create a page for it but it was deleted. Would someone who can start a page without it getting taken down please do so, and I would be happy to provide additional information for the page.
Mseanbrown ( talk) 19:03, 18 June 2016 (UTC)