Book Description
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"
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345363015
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"
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Human-alien encounters
ISBN : 9780575094239
Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1991-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345375445
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"
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466806354
Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award–finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466826428
In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy Who Would Live Forever. The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Gateway and will delight new readers as well. 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. Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, went to Gateway looking for adventure, and found each other. They settle among the Heechee on Forested Planet of Warm Old Star Twenty-Four, never suspecting that they may be the last best hope to save the galaxy. But with allies like Gelle-Klara Moynlin--one of the galaxy's richest women, who isn't content to just have money, but wants to use her wealth for good, and machine mind Marc Antony-a wonderful chef to thousands of living and stored clients, they are destined to contend with Wan's terrible plan. Frederik Pohl has woven together the lives of these and other memorable characters to create a masterful new novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction
ISBN :
Author : Rudy rucker
Publisher : Transreal Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1940948401
Three teens ride a car across the universe and back. Look out for the flying saucers! "Tipping his hat to Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams, Rucker immerses readers in a fantastical roadtrip adventure that’s a wild ride of unmitigated joy. . . . he ties everything together with internal consistency, playful use of language that keeps his ideas alien yet accessible, and a solid grounding in fourth-dimensional math. This wacky adventure is a geeky reader’s delight."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author : Ido Hartogsohn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262358948
How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA experiments with LSD to Timothy Leary's Harvard Psilocybin Project. Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or cognitive enhancers that spark innovation? Activators for one's private muse or part of a political movement? In the 1950s and 1960s, researchers studied psychedelics in all these incarnations, often arriving at contradictory results. In American Trip, Ido Hartogsohn examines how the psychedelic experience in midcentury America was shaped by historical, social, and cultural forces--by set (the mindset of the user) and setting (the environments in which the experience takes place).
Author : Obert Skye
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781416926641
Welcome to Foo: a magical place that shall remain hidden no longer...
Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345325662
Robinette Broadhead desperately tries to prevent the mysterious Foe from putting an end to all intelligent life in the universe