The Heechee Saga PLUS by Frederik Pohl
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Overview: The Heechee are a fictional alien race from the science fiction works of Frederik Pohl. The Heechee are portrayed as an exceedingly advanced star-travelling race that explored Earth’s solar system millennia ago and then disappeared without a trace before humankind began space exploration.
Genre: Science Fiction
1-The Merchants of Venus (1972)
"The Merchants of Venus" is a novella first published in Worlds of If, July-Aug 1972. It is a satire of runaway free market capitalism. It also features the first appearance of the Heechee. (There was graphic novel adaption by Victoria Petersen and Neal McPheeters in 1986, and you’ll find a link to it below.)
2-Gateway (1977)
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe… and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is… in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
(This includes all of the DiFate artwork, and a Postscript to GATEWAY from Galaxy SF.)
3-Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory–a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfer the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his love, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abandoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin’s suffering may be just about over….
4-Heechee Rendezvous (1984)
After millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the relative safety of a black hole) — in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space — where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake….
(This includes most of the Gaughan artwork from Amazing SF -minus Part 1.)
5-The Annals of the Heechee (1987)
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe….
6-The Gateway Trip (1990)
The Gateway Trip, lavishly illustrated by artist Frank Kelly Freas, presents the tales of those perilous journeys and marvelous discoveries, as those intrepid pioneers followed the trail of the elusive Heechee and changed the course of human history forever!
(This is more like The Gateway Concordance, the magazine version from Aboriginal S.F. and only has the 6 Freas illos therein. The book version added The Merchants of Venus and a wealth of Freas artwork).
7-The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2004)
In Gateway, long after the alien Heechee abandoned their space-station, Gateway (as humans dubbed it) allowed humans to explore new worlds. The Heechee, alarmed by the alien Kugel whose goal was to destroy all organic lifeforms, had already retreated to the galactic core where they now lived in peace. Now, in The Boy Who Would Live Forever, humans with dreams of life among the stars are joining the Heechee at the core, to live there along with those humans and Heechee whose physical bodies have died and their minds stored in electronic memory so that their wisdom passes down through the ages.
Their peace is threatened by the Kugel, who may yet attack the core. But a much greater threat is the human Wan Enrique Santos-Smith, whose blind loathing of the Heechee fuels an insane desire to destroy them and, incidentally, every living being in the galaxy.
Download Instructions:
The Heechee Books.
http://gestyy.com/wLmRGW
http://gestyy.com/wLmRGI
The Merchants of Venus.
http://gestyy.com/wLmlaH
http://gestyy.com/wLmlaL
see also:
The Merchants of Venus.CBR
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