Set in a dystopian crash of a future , Gateway follows one valet on a get - rich - or - die - trying missionary station to an unknown location , with unknown results , on an alien ship with a crap yield rate . It ’s a menacing tale , and now it ’s go to be a TV series . A dark , dark TV serial .
Deadlineis reporting that Entertainment One Television ( Bitten , Walking Dead , Haven ) and De Laurentiis Co.(Hannibal ) are working together to develop and develop a drama adaptation of this study .
To describe this classic , we default to Josh Wimmerwho write a marvellous review of this Hugo Award - winning novel .
Gateway by Frederik Pohl : The most dreadful of Hugo success
Gateway , though , just — teems is n’t the right word , because when dread starts teem , it pretty much stop being dread . Better to say the novel is surface in dread : even in the scenes that are n’t set on the unsettling alien space post from which it takes its name , you could sense the feeling . And most of those panorama take place years in the story ’s future , in the safe , comfortable federal agency of a friendly robot psychologist the champion is voluntarily project .
Said champion is Robinette — or Bob — Broadhead , who was stomach poor on an Earth that ’s keep one’s nose to the grindstone its way toward a whine , rather than a bang . It ’s overpopulated , and a big glob of the creation ’s food for thought arrive from despicable bacterium grow on shale mine in less - than - ideal conditions . Jobs are hard to come by , and though medical technology has made some bang-up strides , it ’s only available to the wealthiest hoi polloi . Formerly a food for thought miner , Bob is now one of those wealthy people , living in Manhattan ( which is a control surround seal off under a big house of cards ) .
He got productive by belong to Gateway , a quad post formerly inhabited by an ancient , mysterious alien subspecies human race have dubbed the Heechee . Here is what we know about the Heechee : almost nothing . We ’ve found a few of their artifact and trace some of their technology , but we ’re not certain what they look like , what their finish was like , or what happened to them .
Gateway is a sway about ten kilometer wide at its longest tip , honeycomb with tunnels and pervade on the outside with bumps and holes . The bumps are the hull of Heechee ship . The holes are where Heechee ships used to be . Human scientist have picture out how to make the ships race — sort of . Other homo , usually poor ones , spend their life savings to become prospectors , and fly Heechee ships out of Gateway on predetermined courses to they - know - not - where , hop to strike it plenteous determination traces of the exotic culture .
About a third of the ships come back . And the mass within are n’t always alive when they do .
Read the rest of thebreakdown here . We are all very excited to see this premiss launching , plus thank good for more shows with spaceships .
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