Heechee Rendezvous; a novel

Pohl, Frederik

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Ballantine Books [A Del Rey Book], New York, 1984

0345300629 / 9780345300621

Série : Livre 3 sur 6 - Heechee Saga

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xx, 311, [5] pages. Robinette Broadhead, who learned the secrets of a cache of Heechee starships found hidden in an asteroid, is brought face to face with the mysterious race who made them. Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 yearsfrom his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science-fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas The Years of the City, one of two repeat winners during the first 40 years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction, and it was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards, including receiving both for the 1977 novel Gateway. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998. Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010. Heechee Rendezvous is a science fiction novel. It is a sequel to Gateway (1977) and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1981) and is set about three decades after Gateway. It has been cataloged as the third book in a six-book series called Heechee or The Heechee Saga (the Heechee are a fictional alien race that use advanced technology, created by Pohl) but Kirkus reviewed it as completing a trilogy and a German-language edition of the three books was published as the Gateway trilogy (Die Gateway-Trilogie, Munich: Heyne Verlag, 2004) after all six were out. Robinette Broadhead, a married millionaire with health problems, returns in this novel. Even with his need for medical care, Broadhead does not feel that he deserves transplants to keep him alive, as he is still feeling guilty about his horrible journey to a black hole many years ago. He still attempts to research more about the advanced alien Heechees and their star-travelling technology. At the same time, a madman named Wan attempts to search for his father within black holes, using stolen equipment and a Heechee ship. Wan's probing is noticed by a sentient race of slow-moving creatures who inform a Heechee patrol that is sent out of their black hole to observe the galaxy. Fearing that humans may alert a malevolent race of beings known as the Assassins, the Heechee patrol tries to find out more about human achievements in space flight and whether or not the damage done by them can be undone. Wan's probing also releases Gelle-Klara Moynlin from her two decade-long entrapment. Moynlin was a companion of Robinette on his journey to the black hole, which Moynlin experienced as only several elapsed days. The journeys of these past and future friends of Robinette begin to converge, and in the end, humans finally meet the Heechee race. Dave Langford reviewed Heechee Rendezvous for White Dwarf #57, and stated that "Heechee Rendezvous completes a worthy trilogy." Derived from a Kirkus review: The final sequel to brilliant Gateway (1977) and the Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)--finishing up a sprawling trilogy. At the close of this last installment, Pohl's narrator--benevolent tycoon Robinette Broadhead--will die, transferring his mentality to a "datafan," a pseudoliving state whence he can access any stored data (thus his omniscient point of view). Before he dies, though, Broadhead is still busy gathering information on the allen Heechee.…

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Titre
Heechee Rendezvous; a novel
Auteur
Pohl, Frederik
Éditeur
Ballantine Books [A Del Rey Book], New York
Année de publication
1984
État de l'article
Very good
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Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0345300629
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780345300621
Illustrateur
Darrell K. Sweet (Cover painting) and Brian M. Fra
Édition
Edition originale
Série
Livre 3 sur 6: Heechee Saga

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