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Heechee Rendezvous (Heechee Saga #3)
At lastthe ultimate book in the renowned Heechee Saga!
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction...more
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent on the utter destruction...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
March 12th 1985
by Del Rey
(first published 1984)
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Zdecydowanie słabsza z odsłona "Gateway". Już w przypadku drugiej części odczuwałem brak płynności fabularnej i ten trend znacznie się pogłębił w przypadku trzeciego tomu. Historia zdaje się nieco rozłazić, i naprawdę bardzo trudno uchwycić mi było się czegoś, co mógłbym określić głównym wątkiem "Spotkania z Heechami". Oprócz znanych postaci - których charaktery ewoluowały w dość nieoczekiwanym, i niekoniecznie dobrze przeze mnie odebranym kierunku - pojawia się kilku nowych bohaterów, którzy -...more
An excellent book and an excellent continuation in the series! The only thing it's lacking (that the other books, especially the first one, had plenty of) is mystery. There's a bit of suspense and mystery here and there, and the narrative style is mostly the same as the first two, but the foretelling/foreshadowing in this case actually serve to diminish the suspense and mystery rather than augment it. It does add some depth and some very interesting perspective to the story throughout, and I sti...more
More like 2.5 stars. I think I figured out a little bit more about my feelings for this series--interesting ideas, pretty good plot, crappy characters. And if I don't care about the characters, the plot and ideas become less engaging.
We finally meet the Heechee in this book, and learn a little more about the threat of the Assassins. It has an interesting ending, when (view spoiler)...more
We finally meet the Heechee in this book, and learn a little more about the threat of the Assassins. It has an interesting ending, when (view spoiler)...more
This was disappointing after having read the first book. There's a lot of repetition in Pohl's writing and I get the feeling I only overlooked it in the first book because the premise was so good. The premise in the third book and the actual Heechee Rendezvous is so weak that I wouldn't recommend this book. In fact, I probably won't go back and read the second book. I would even not recommend the first book to someone else this point. If you were considering this book, or even considering readin...more
Not nearly on par with the first two books. At times engaging, but the
shift in narrative style fails.
The typical foreshadowing in the series mostly doesn't payoff or deals with less interesting "things to come." Also though chance is a major component in the series the happenings in this one seem less random and more tagged together to make the story go.
Sadly, the formerly awesome Albert Program becomes grating and unbearable and a drag on the book's pacing.
On the plus side, as anti-climactic...more
shift in narrative style fails.
The typical foreshadowing in the series mostly doesn't payoff or deals with less interesting "things to come." Also though chance is a major component in the series the happenings in this one seem less random and more tagged together to make the story go.
Sadly, the formerly awesome Albert Program becomes grating and unbearable and a drag on the book's pacing.
On the plus side, as anti-climactic...more
Review: Heechee #3; Heechee Rendezvous, Fredrick Pohl
The first two Heechee novels were entertaining and suspenseful. This novel is peppered with the intensity of any given adventure/suspense novel but woven in like a spider web is the story of Essie and Robinette Broadhead whom the novels have been orbiting around.
There is Klara, Robinette's first love from the first novel still hovering creating a love suspense between Robinette and his wife of 25 years Essie. But this is only one subset of...more
The first two Heechee novels were entertaining and suspenseful. This novel is peppered with the intensity of any given adventure/suspense novel but woven in like a spider web is the story of Essie and Robinette Broadhead whom the novels have been orbiting around.
There is Klara, Robinette's first love from the first novel still hovering creating a love suspense between Robinette and his wife of 25 years Essie. But this is only one subset of...more
The original Gateway trilogy ends with Heechee Rendezvous, wrapping up many of the plot points but leaving a few open for future books. I have two more books in the later series that I'll be reading and reviewing.
One major thread through the three books is the life of Robinette Broadhead. We see his childhood in the food mines, his time as a prospector, his rise as a businessman and venture capitalist and ultimately his death. What happens after his death though made me think immediately of the...more
One major thread through the three books is the life of Robinette Broadhead. We see his childhood in the food mines, his time as a prospector, his rise as a businessman and venture capitalist and ultimately his death. What happens after his death though made me think immediately of the...more
Pedantic, annoying, and bothersome, all in one book.
The author lost touch with a reliable perspective from which to tell his story. This volume was filled with shifts in point of view, sidebars from characters observing the story being told, and direct address of the reader by the narrator.
Beyond the stylistic complaints, the characters in the story didn't develop meaningfully (except as trite plot devices), and the actions weren't compelling. All-around pretty much a waste of time.
The author lost touch with a reliable perspective from which to tell his story. This volume was filled with shifts in point of view, sidebars from characters observing the story being told, and direct address of the reader by the narrator.
Beyond the stylistic complaints, the characters in the story didn't develop meaningfully (except as trite plot devices), and the actions weren't compelling. All-around pretty much a waste of time.
Not a big fan. The beauty of the first two books was the mystery of the Heechee. No mystery in this one, they are just regular characters. No new vistas of discovery (except for the 'foe', who have made no mark at all in the story.) Still, brilliantly written with Pohl's usual wit and charm. I give it three stars just for that.
I guess I'm in another galaxy from many of the readers on this. Heechee Rendezvous was my favorite of the trilogy. To me, Robin seemed less whiny than usual. I like that many of the mysteries are solved and I love Robin's POV in this book. I enjoyed meeting the Heechee and learning more about Albert. I also felt much more of an affinity for S. Ya than I had in the previous book. The first two books in the trilogy left me feeling rather dysthymic, although not discouraged. This third book left me...more
A diferència dels dos anteriors, la tercera part m'ha costat de llegir i d'entrar a dins de la història. Ara bé, admeto que el libre conté grans dosis de Ciència Ficció :-)
This was enjoyable. It was nice to see some progress in the mystery of the Heechee after 3 books. I do intend to read the 4th and final book at some point.
The "gripping finale" (at least until he wrote another book - ha, ha) to the Heechee saga. We finally meet the reclusive aliens and a number of vague threads in the novels are vaguely resolved. The Artificial Intelligence (sometimes Albert Einstein, sometimes Sigmund Freud) gets his own story arc, which I thought was pretty cool. The main character Robin seemed a bit more whiny than usual, but he gets to experience, how can I say, at least a partial resolution to his life issues.
I had really low expectations of this book to be honest. The opinions of other people that read it were pretty low, the reviews here as well, so I went in a bit afraid of what the much expected Heechee meeting would hold in store for me.
I wasn't really disappointed in the book, but with what my expectations were, that's understandable. Most of the story flowed nicely for me (I really don't mind multiple perspectives in a story) and the Heechee proved to be alien enough to be interesting, and hu...more
I wasn't really disappointed in the book, but with what my expectations were, that's understandable. Most of the story flowed nicely for me (I really don't mind multiple perspectives in a story) and the Heechee proved to be alien enough to be interesting, and hu...more
Pretty good 3rd book. The story is not really finished in this book. I want to read the next one, but I doubt I find the book.
Not anywhere near as good as either of the first two books in the series.
A good ending to a great series. (Even though there are two more Heechee books, this is definitely an ending to a planned arc.)
Book 3 in the Gateway Series
Dropping two stars from my original rating. Much of the mystery of the first two books is sucked away, and for the first third we're treated to unfamiliar or, in the case of Wan, very irritating characters. I also have a hard time believing that Robin Broadhead's wife speaks such broken English after having been married for 25 years and winning a Nobel prize. It's not as though she's an unintelligent woman.
Thankfully, Pohl adds in the Heechee themselves, pointing old and new characters in their...more
Thankfully, Pohl adds in the Heechee themselves, pointing old and new characters in their...more
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A fitting end to a great series.
It is too bad that I cannot take a hint when reading. The #2 book in this series was mediocre, and I should have known that the third book would be just as lame. I was mostly reading it for the resolution to the protagonist's love triangle, which the author alluded to for this entire book, but then avoided with a very weak plot twist at the end. Add to that the annoying characters sprinkled throughout this book, and you have yourself a one star wonder. Joy.
I like this book as much as I liked the earlier books in this series...ans that was a whole lot....
The main protagonist is called Broadhead so I'm a little biased in rating this book.
Although the third in a series, this book is pretty much self-contained, and I found it unnecessary to read the preceding two. It is very imaginative, and uniquely told in the first-person, by two characters: a human, who is one of the main characters in the story, and a computer nicknamed Albert Einstein. Very enjoyable.
This closed the Series nicely and many reviewers say that book four is crap so I'm stopping here. (view spoiler)
I loved this series with the ancient race that had dissapeared except for its artifacts.
An interesting book but the story is clumsy and more complicated than needed.
Finally we get to see a Heechee.
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Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor & fan, with a career spanning over seventy years. From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited "Galaxy" magazine and its sister magazine "IF", winning the Hugo for "IF" three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
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