RICH MAN,
DEAD MAN

Those were the choices Gateway offered - the same for women, too, of course. Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...  and on reaches of unimaginable horror. The humans who rode the alien Heechee spacecraft stored on the planetoid couldn't know whether the trip would make them millionaires or corpses.

When Bob Broadhead came out to Gateway, he thought his problem was simple - wait till the mission felt right, then ship out. But watching returned prospectors scraped from the insides of their ships, falling in love, feeling his nerve dwindle - all these things changed him.

Then, years later, Robinette Broadhead, a three-mission veteran, famous and permanently rich, has to face just what happened to him and what he is... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void he finally drove himself to take!

A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION
FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

GATEWAY TO
THE HEECHEE

Robinette Broadhead, made rish by the Gateway mission that had cost him the woman he loved, joined in bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory a Heechee spaceship foud beyond the orbit of Pluto and designed to graze the cometary cloud and transform the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food.

Broadhead thought his motives were simple enough: a gamble on a breakthrough that could end famine forever and would make him the wealthiest man in history.  But his understanding, tough-minded wife knew something else drove her husband: a vision of his lost love, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole... where Robin had abandonded her.

"The Heechee are one of the great creations of science fiction."
Jack Williamson

Once the galaxy was ruled by the Heechee, benevolent aliens with almost godlike powers.  But five hundred thousand years ago they encountered an even more powerful race, and to prevent their own destruction, the Heechee fled to the relative safety of a black hole, leaving behind only traces of their civilization.

Millennia passed and Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy - in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. In Gateway the impoverished Robinette Broadhead won a lottery ticket to the asteroid, rode a Heechee ship into interstellar space and returned to Earth a conscience-stricken millionaire.  Then in Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Broadhead financed and eventually led the expedition which unlocked many secrets of Heechee technology.

Now in Heechee Rendezvous, Robinette Broadhead is forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space - where the Heechee are waiting.  And this time the future of Man is at stake....

A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION
FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK

THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One
Gateway
Book Two
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Book Three
Heechee Rendezvous

HORIZON'S GATEWAY

Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality.  He passed the time flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people.

But suddenly his decadent existence was interrupted by disaster - a powerful alien race, intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life, had reappeared after eons of silence, and the lives of all Heechee and humans were at stake.

Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, could not discover what these aliens were - or how to stop them.  Yet it looked as if he was the only one able to deal with the enemy face to face - a meeting that would determine the future of the entire universe...

THE HEECHEE SAGA
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