Gateway by Frederick Pohl

You should read this book. It's short and fun, and was Joint Winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1977/1978. I especially liked the Zen ending that we get, courtesy of a Computer Psychotherapist. But to detail that would be unfair.
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