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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

(1980)
(The second book in the Heechee series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1981 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
1980 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee)

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....


Genre: Science Fiction

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