The Boy Who Would Live Forever  A Novel of Gateway   Frederik
Pohl  Tor Books  From Istanbul to the Stars On Stan's
seventeenth birthday the Wrath of God came again, as it had been
doing every six weeks or so. At the time Stan was alone in the
apartment, cutting up vegetables for his birthday dinner. When
he felt that familiar, sudden, overwhelming, disorienting, horny
rush of vertigo he knew that it was what everybody he knew
called "the Wrath of God" and nobody understood at all. Screams
and sirens from outside the building told him that everybody
else in that part of Istanbul was feeling it, too. Stan managed
to drop the paring knife to the floor so he wouldn't cut
himself. Then he staggered to a kitchen chair to wait it out.
People said the Wrath was a terrible thing. Well, that was true
enough. Whatever the Wrath of God really was, it struck everyone
in the world at once--and not just the people still living on
Earth, either. Ships in space, the colonies on Mars and Venus,
as long as human beings were st