Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga, Book 4)
by Frederik Pohl
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Author: Frederik PohlEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-04-12
ISBN: 0345325664
Number of pages: 341
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Reviews of Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga, Book 4)
Book Review: Thoughtful but action packed, not for everybody, but some may have their core philosophies challenged.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is probably my favorite book in the series. It jumps around a lot and presents the reader with many different ideas and situations that challenge your philosophy on life, the meaning of being human, what humans would act like in a post-singularity existense, what humans would act like in a myriad of different and other utterly unique situations that we may one day be faced with,,,. A book that makes you think but doesn't shortchange you on action and suspense. My favorite kind. It treats you like you are an intelligent person, who, now that you know the characters and set-up, and are probably sci-fi and science literate, can appreciate an author jumping around with many different ideas and scenarios in order to ask the ultimate question at the end of the book. Awesome stuff and very important in the sci-fi canon.
With that said, most readers won't like it. It has flaws and is sometimes uneven and too jumpy. R. Broadhead gets on your nerves and Albert is too much of his little biatch. It doesn't clean up it's 'loose ends'. If you want space opera go somewhere else. If you want thoughtful scifi, give it a try.
Summary of Annals of the Heechee (Heechee Saga, Book 4)
At last--the 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 of all intelligent life reappears after eons of silence, and threatens the lives of all heechee and humans. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, cannot discover how to stop these aliens. It began to seem that only a face to face meeting could determine the future of the entire universe....
THE HEECHEE SAGE
Book One: GATEWAY
Book Two: BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE
The Gateway Trip: TALES AND VIGNETTES OF THE HEECHEE
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