"Pohl, Frederik - Heechee 3 - Heechee Rendevous" - читать интересную книгу автора (Pohl Frederick)

A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright (c) 1984 by Frederik Pohi


All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in
Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.



Manufactured in the United States of America
For Betty Anne Hull with all the love I have
CONTENTS


CHAPTER
Prologue: A Chat with My Subset 1
1 Just like Old Times 9
2 What Happened on Peggys Planet 19
3 Senseless Violence 42
4 Aboard the S. Ya. 49
5 A Day in a Tycoon's Life 63
6 Out Where the Black Holes Spin 67
7 Homecoming 74
8 The Nervous Crew of the Sailboat 80
9 Audee and Me 84
10 The Place Where the Heechee Dwelt 90
11 Meeting in Rotterdam 101
12 God and the Heechee 122
13 The Penalties of Love 128
14 The New Albert 142
15 Back from the Schwarzschild Discontinuity 154
16 Gateway Revisited 169
17 Picking Up the Pieces 190
18 In the High Pentagon 196
19 The Permutations of Love 207
20 Unwanted Encounter 221
21 Abandoned by Albert 229
22 Is There Life after Death? 241
23 Out of the Heechee Hideaway 251
24 The Geography of Heaven 258
25 Return to Earth 266
26 The Thing the Heechee Feared 270
Prologue: A Chat with My Subset

I am no Hamlet. I'm an attendant lord, though, or at least I would be if I were human. I'm not. I'm a computer program. That is an honorable estate and I am not at all ashamed of it, especially since (as you can see) I am a very sophisticated program, not only fit to swell a progression or start a scene or two but to quote from obscure twentieth-century poets as I tell you about it.
It is to start the scene that I am speaking now. Albert's my name, and introductions are my game. I start by introducing myself.