Talk:Gateway (novel)

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He decides to sacrifice himself and closes the hatch.

From my reading of the novel, my first impression was that the guy tried to escape before the others did, thus stranding them and having the subsequent 'survivor guilt'. I haven't read the other sequels yet, but maybe that sentence should be changed to a mere statement of the facts (he closed the hatch, he aimed to push some sort of release control, the others yelled to him not to do it (not to do what?)), to accept wider interpretations. :-) He certainly didn't seem the sacrificing kind up to that point. Cheers Raystorm 00:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

They were moving all the excess equipment into that ship and everybody else was in the other one. He tried frantically to get out, then realized there wasn't time. As for motivation, he loved Klara. Clarityfiend 00:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know they were trying to move out the excess equipment and he found himself on the wrong place when they ran out of time. I finished the novel yesterday. :-) I'm just saying it looked more like self-preservation when he closed the hatch than something more noble as self-sacrifice. As for Klara, he loved her yes, but he also beat and hurt her. I guess it's a matter of interpretation. Raystorm 10:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Pohl deliberately leaves this ambiguous. When the AI asks Robin whether he intended to desert the others he shouts "Yes. No. I don't know." It has been established before this (when he beat Klara and when he damaged the Heechee ship) that Robin has difficulty controlling his emotions in a crisis. The implication is that he wanted to sacrifice himself, but his unconscious mind performed the actions necessary to get away. CharlesTheBold 21:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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