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Beyond the Blue Event Horizon is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl, a sequel to his 1977 novel Gateway and the second book in the Heechee series. It was a finalist for two major annual awards, the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novel [ 2 ] and the 1980 Nebula Award . [ 3 ]
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Del Rey, 1980) Heechee Rendezvous (Del Rey, 1984). It was serialized in Amazing Science Fiction starting in January 1984, with illustrations by Jack Gaughan. The Annals of the Heechee (Del Rey, 1987) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (Tor Books, 2004), which incorporated three previously published ...
Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed (five books overall). Gateway won the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novel , [ 4 ] the 1978 Locus Award for Best Novel , [ 4 ] the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novel , [ 5 ] and the 1978 John W. Campbell ...
When Paramount got its first look at a cut of “Event Horizon” in 1997, some studio executives thought that director Paul W.S. Anderson had made a film so disturbing that it slandered outer ...
The novel discusses the problems which arise when a wormhole is used for faster-than-light communication. In the novel the authors suggest that wormholes can join points distant either in time or in space and postulate a world completely devoid of privacy as wormholes are increasingly used to spy on anyone at any time in the world's history ...
The Science in Science Fiction: 83 SF Predictions That Became Scientific Reality. Consulting Editor: James Gunn. BenBella Books. pp. 43– 46. ISBN 978-1-932100-48-8. Fraknoi, Andrew (January 2024). "Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics: A Topical Index" (PDF). Astronomical Society of the Pacific (7.3 ed.). pp. 7– 8.
Quarantine is a 1992 hard science fiction novel by Greg Egan. [1] Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics (or rather of its consciousness causes collapse variant), which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct.
Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers.. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon.