Sci-Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group
Gateway (1977 novel), by Fredrick Pohl
At the December 17, 2025 meeting, we’ll discuss the novel Gateway (1977), by Fredrick Pohl
A Scifi classic (the first novel in the HeeChee saga)
From Goodreads:
*When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become… in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
The book is available in some libraries, also via Libby, on Amazon, or on Spotify and Audible
At the end of the meeting, we will choose a book for our February 18th meeting.
The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Discussion Group was meeting via Zoom before it was cool! Lovers of science fiction and fantasy, at UUCPA and beyond, have been getting together online to talk about books, movies, and television episodes chosen by the group, every other month since early 2019. Past books include The Broken Earth Trilogy (N. K. Jemisin), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein), Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin), Red Moon (Kim Stanley Robinson); past television and movies include Arrival, Blink (Doctor Who), Serenity and The Train Job (Firefly), and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The meeting method: via Zoom, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Dates: Third Wednesdays, except for December and summer
- Time: 7-8:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Facilitator: Bill Hackenberger (scifi+owner@uucpa.org)
- Registration: Not required
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- Meeting ID: 924 4906 7832
- Passcode: 825590
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