Nate D's Reviews > Gateway

For what seemed like it was going to be typical space adventure stuff about treasure hunters firing off to hazardous ends of the universe in discovered craft from a vanished civilization, this goes deep into the deathly alienness of space (minor Roadside Picnic shadings), notably rampant dystopian hypercapitalism, supporting collage-narrative though ephemera, and one of those terrible relationships that somehow managed to make me care and feel for the characters against all odds. The space adventure bits are actually more framing to the psychoanalytics of guilt, remorse, and denial, and even if those weren't handled all that gracefully AND they're all mediated by an obvious asshole, I still was weirdly caught up and wanted things to turn out much better for at least one of them.