The Boy Who Would Live Forever A Novel of Gateway

A Triumphant New Gateway Adventure Twenty-five years after the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestseller Gateway , Frederik Pohl returns with a new Gateway novel. Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge success, The Boy Who Would Live Forever is a memorable journey into the unknown. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the Gateway asteroid looking for adventure, and discover each other during a flight in one of the ships the alien Heechee left behind when they explored our Solar System. Stan and Estrella settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans and Heechee in the core from destruction by a crazed madman. Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, a man full of loathing for the Heechee, will stop at nothing to destroy the Heechee and their human friends. But Stan and Estrella, with the help of a fabulously wealthy philanthropist and the unique machine mind Marc Antony, are determined to thwart Wan's terrible plan. At stake is nothing less than the fate of all life in the galaxy.

A bestselling, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning SF author, Frederik Pohl has written more than twenty successful novels, has been the award-winning editor of SF magazines and anthologies, and has been lauded as a Grand Master by the Science fiction Writers of America, He has collaborated on classic SF works such as The Space Merchants as well as having written such fine solo novels as Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and Man Plus, and has been active in a myriad of other ways in the field for many decades. He lives in Palatine, Illinois.

Goodbye Mother Earth
“They're welcoming us, Stan. They want to hear everything about the human race.�

Stan shook his head. “We won't have time. We've got to be on that ship when it goes back. We have to get back to Earth while we're still news, the first ones to return from the Core. Just think what that will be worth? Not just the bonus--but we'll be famous! Don't you see what we're missing, Estrella! Time is passing us by. We have to go back!�

She asked simply, “Why?�

He blinked at her. “What do you mean, why?�

“Have you looked at the time? Our friends are getting old. They might even have died by now. You wanted to live a long, long time. Now we're doing it. Besides, we've come all this way. As long as we're here, we might as well see what the place looks like.�

Stan found words at last. “How long?�

“Not long, if that's what you want. A week or two-“

“Estrella! That'll be-what? A thousand years or more on Earth!�

She nodded. “And by then maybe it'll be worth going back to.�