Heechee Rendezvous
a novel
by Frederik Pohl · first published 1984
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The third novel in Frederik Pohl's 'Heechee Saga', continuing the story of mankind's discovery of, and search for, an ancient space-faring civilization that had risen and then disappeared before the time intelligent life developed on earth. Preceded by "Gateway" and "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon". Followed by "The Annals of the Heechee" and "The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway"
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on “Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?” ↗…twelve kilometers a second. Out of curiosity I asked Albert later and he reported that it took 3.6 x lO^8 Joules to pump it up. And when one collapses, all those Joules come out at once, one way or another." From Heechee Rendezvous: http://www.amazon.com/Heechee-Rendezvous-Frederik-Pohl/dp/03...
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