Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2)

Author - Frederik Pohl ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Ballantine Books was reviewed on 23-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. I loved Gateway and couldn´t wait to read this book. It was such a disappointment I intended to read no further in this series and am none too interested in reading Pohl again at all.¤

2) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. Gateway (Heechee Book 1) was a triumph in originality and depth. But it´s such a sad fact for me that this sequel spoils the very name "Heechee" and everything I found exciting about the beginning of the series.

I don´t know how Pohl could go from such an insightful book like Gateway, where he explored both psychology and space, to a book where all the male characters are hormonal perverts (both young and old). There was nothing nearly as epic as the basic storyline which was presented in Gateway. The only thing worth knowing in this book is the following: SKIP IT AND READ BOOK 3. While reading book 3, it will update you here and there as to what happened in this sequel (book 2), so you don´t have to waste your time in reading book 2.

I give this sequel one extra star simply because it adds just a mystery or two more about the Heechee than what was left in Gateway. The sequel answers no questions, just piles on more mysteries.¤

3) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. Like the Heechee Saga book 1 this one is also a little tired and almost silly in some places. However, it has been around a while and is worth the read for dedicated sci-fi fans. You need to have this in your memory when discussing sci-fi with others.¤

4) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. This book out of the Heechee saga is another terrific winner. Fredrick Pohl knows how to teach you the laws of the universe and make you laugh at the same time. The main character Robinette Broadhead is always entertaining!¤

5) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon is the second in Pohl´s Heechee saga which posits a future where humanity looks to alien artifacts and technology to assist resolving the complications of overpopulation. In this book the story revolves around a mission to discover the Food Factory, a Heechee space station that is able to manufacture food from basic elements. The crew sent to explore and secure this station is a family of an elder male with two daughters, and the husband of one of the daughters. During the three year voyage the younger daughter grows into a hormonal 14-year-old which creates a lot of tension between the two sisters, particularly since the 14-year-old sister, Janine, is trying out her female wiles on her sister Lurvy´s husband Paul.

What they find at the station is not what they expected create interesting twists to the story. Meanwhile on earth the protagonist of the first volume in the series, Robinette, is involved in financing the exploration. However, in a horrible accident his wife is seriously injured and goes through a series of harrowing and possibly fatal medical treatments. It is interesting that in the last book the story was about the grief of the loss of a wife, and this second book has a central theme of healing of the wife along with the sexually driven desire of Janine on the spaceship to explore her sexuality. There is a strong Jungian theme of restoration of the feminine in these books.

On the whole this was an enjoyable sci-fi tale. However the story digresses sometimes into scientific explanations delivered in large indigestible lumps that detract rather than add to the story. The strengths of Beyond the Blue Event Horizon are the human tales and relationships, and the adventure of space exploration.¤

6) Paperback Book Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga, Book 2) by Ballantine Books. 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


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