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Heechee rendezvous / a novel by Frederik Pohl.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Pohl, F.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pohl, Frederik.
- Series:
- Del Rey book
- A Del Rey book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interstellar travel--Fiction.
- Interstellar travel.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [1984]
- Summary:
- After millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the reative 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....
- Notes:
- Sequel to: Beyond the blue event horizon. Final novel of trilogy.
- Cover Painting: Darrell K. Sweet.
- Gutter code "O44" on page 273 indicates an October '84 printing date.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 16735
- OCLC:
- 11703368
- Publisher Number:
- 03827 Science Fiction Book Club
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