Series
Heechee
Frederik Pohl · 5 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 10 short stories · 1 collection · 1972–2004
The Heechee Saga, also known as the Gateway series, is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Frederik Pohl. The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared. They left behind bases containing artifacts, including working starships, which are discovered and exploited by humanity.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Heechee at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s3
- 1990s12
- 2000s2
Shape
5 novels · 2 novellas · 1 novelette · 10 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensspacefar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Gatewaydarkest
- Beyond the Blue Event Horizonbrightest · most intense
- The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heecheecalmest