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Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere.

Gateway is an asteroid hollowed out by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race. A short concluding chapter, cut before publication, was later published in the August 1977 issue of Galaxy. Gateway was serialized in Galaxy prior to its hardcover publication. The novel was adapted into a computer game in 1992. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Gateway won the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1978 Locus Award for Best Novel, the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1978 John W. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall).

He continues to write from his home in Palatine, Illinois.Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. He married his current wife, science fiction editor and academic Elizabeth Anne Hull, PhD, in 1984. He also began to emerge as a novel writer, and went on to win Nebula awards for fiction in 19 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. In the 1970s he acquired and edited novels for the "Frederik Pohl Selections" series of Bantam Books. In 1966, 1967, and 1968 his magazines won Hugo Awards for Best Professional Magazines. In the early 1950s his literary agency business failed and he returned to editing as an assistant editor at Galaxy Science Fiction and later also if Magazine. In 1948 he married his third wife, Judith Merril, who he divorced in 1953, the same year he married his fourth wife, Carol Metcal Ulf. He divorced his first wife during this period and married his second wife in 1945. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps from 1945-1945. In 1943 both the magazines he was editing folded, and he worked as a literary agent. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and regularly published his own stories in both of them.

In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven.