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FWIW, you're the only other person I've seen acknowledge that Gateway is an AI novel not an alien archeology novel. The Heechee are just a plot device. Good o
by carapace 5y ago
FWIW, you're the only other person I've seen acknowledge that Gateway is an AI novel not an alien archeology novel. The Heechee are just a plot device.
Good on ya!
- PaulHoule 5y agoThe first novel is different than all of the others because of the psychological intensity and claustrophobia. (e.g. it's a story of a civilization at the breaking point, not after it was broken or facing permanent expansion.) The other ones are ahead of their time in terms of the idea of "downloading".