Frederik Pohl

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 transfor 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 wife, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned 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.... THE HEECHEE SAGA Book One: Gateway Book Two: Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Book Three: Heechee Rendezvous Book Four: The Annals of the Heechee From the Paperback edition.

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Cyril M. Kornbluth

Mitchell Courtenay, an advertising copywriter of the future is assigned to sway public support for the American colonization of Venus

The Space Merchants

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

Heechee Rendezvous

The award-winning account of a man changed beyond all recognition so that he can be part of a bold experiment to live on Mars Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.

Man Plus

Robinette Broadhead desperately tries to prevent the mysterious Foe from putting an end to all intelligent life in the universe

The Annals of the Heechee

Arthur Charles Clarke

When Ranjit Subramianian comes up with a solution for Fermat's Last Theorem, he gains not only fame and fortune but also the attentions of the NSA and the secretive Pax per Fidem, while, unbeknownst to the inhabitants of Earth, alien invaders are on a col

The Last Theorem

The great Account Executives of Earth will stop at nothing--not even war--to crush the handful of rebels on Venus who oppose their all-encompassing domination

The Merchants' War

The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction, Fantasy

A cynical and compelling tale of politics, exploitation and colonisation on another planet The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', JEM is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels.

The Heechee gateways, remnants of an ancient civilization, provide instantaneous passage to the far reaches of the universe but do not ensure destination, return, wealth, or survival, in a new edition of the classic original novel from the author's award-winning series. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Gateway

Eight supremely intelligent astronauts, sent on a bogus mission whose real purpose is to isolate them so that they might concentrate on solving the earth's great problems, return to earth to seek vengeance

Starburst

Jack Williamson

Far beyond the orbit of Pluto, half-mythical bodies circle the Solar System - the Reefs of Space, unknown, shrouded in mystery, the goal of human conquest, the obsession of the Plan of Man, tyrannical ruler of Earth.

The Reefs of Space

Autobiographical commentary is interspersed with eight of the early works of Frederik Pohl, well-known science fiction author and editor.

The Early Pohl

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2

C. M. Kornbluth

"La variedad de efectos es poco comun en los autores de anticipacion... con sus brillantes relatos de aventuras y su falta de curiosidad acerca del caracter humano. Una variedad que va mas alla de un mero reordenamiento se encuentra raramente, y la variedad de tono es mas escasa todavia. Aparece sin embargo en Mercaderes del espacio, que por muchas razones podria ser llamada la mejor novela de ciencia ficcion de las publicadas hasta ahora... Los campos de interes de los dos autores son apropiados para la construccion de una utopia donde el sistema economico ha devorado al sistema politico, donde las grandes companias ejercen el poder, sin intermediarios, y hasta el fin... y la sociedad ha sido estratificada rigidamente en productores, ejecutivos y consumidores... No es meramente un mundo donde el hombre de la publicidad es el rey; combina ademas el lujo y la escasez, aparatos fantasticos junto a la falta de combustible --Fowler Schoeken viaja en Cadillac a pedal--, toda clase de bebidas y gomas de mascar, y una extrema escasez de proteinas. En este aspecto recuerda una observacion de George Orwell sobre los lujos, en camino de convertirse en menos caros y faciles de obtener que los articulos de primera necesidad." Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell, 1961

Mercaderes del espacio

A collection of tales and vignettes chronicles humankind's discovery and exploration of the Heechee artifacts and provides a companion to the novels of "The Heechee Saga"

Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

The Gateway Trip

The peaceful existences of the Heechee gateway creators and the human survivors of a post-apocalypse Earth are threatened by the alien Kugel and an insane human's plot to destroy the galaxy.

Frederik Pohl

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